Can Schools Save Indigenous Languages?

RICHARD HILL is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, University of Waikato, New Zealand VUOKKO HIRVONEN is Associate Professor at the Saami University College in Guovdageaidnu, Norway LEENA HUSS is Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Multiethnic Research at Uppsala University, Sweden NKONKO M. KAMWANGAMALU is Professor of Linguistics and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of English, Howard University, Washington DC, USA LUIS ENRIQUE LA"PEZ is Principal Advisor to the Program in Bilingual Intercultural Education for the Andean Region with headquarters at the University of San Simon in Cochabamba, Bolivia STEPHEN MAY is Foundation Professor and Chair of Language and Literacy Education, and Research Professor in the Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, School of Education, University of Waikato, New Zealand TERESA L. MCCARTY is the Alice Wiley Snell Professor of Education Policy Studies at Arizona State University, USA NICANOR REBOLLEDO RECENDIZ is Professor at the National Pedagogical University, in the Department of Bilingual Intercultural Education, Mexico BERNARD SPOLSKY is Professor Emeritus of English at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, where he was also founding director of the Language Policy Research Centre

This volume offers a close look at four cases of indigenous language revitalization: Maori in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Saami in Scandinavia, Hñähñö in Mexico and Quechua and other indigenous languages in Latin America. Essays by experts from each case are in turn discussed in international perspective by four counterpart experts.This volume offers a close look at four cases of indigenous language revitalization: Maori in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Saami in Scandinavia, Hñähñö in Mexico and Quechua and other indigenous languages in Latin America. Essays by experts from each case are in turn discussed in international perspective by four counterpart experts.