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Lapresta-Rey, Cecilio, Ed.; Huguet, Ángel, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2019
This book explores how different European education systems manage multilingualism. Each chapter focuses on one of ten diverse settings (Andorra, Asturias, the Basque Country, Catalonia, England, Finland, France, Latvia, the Netherlands, and Romania) and considers how its education system is influenced by historical, sociolinguistic and…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Student Diversity, Sociolinguistics, Politics of Education
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Leppänen, Sirpa; Westinen, Elina – AILA Review, 2017
Focusing on a YouTube performance by an emergent Finnish Somali rapper and the audience responses it has generated, this paper looks at ways in which rap music engages with the issue of belonging. Drawing on recent theorizations of belonging as a multi-dimensional, contingent and fluid process, along with sociolinguistic work on globalization and…
Descriptors: Music, Video Technology, Intervention, Stranger Reactions
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Nordberg, Bengt – Linguistics, 1976
Describes the linguistic backgrounds of Sweden and Finland and presents a few examples of recent sociolinguistic research in these countries. (CFM)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Diglossia, Educational Policy, Finnish
Lainio, Jarmo – 2002
Linguistic diversity in the Nordic countries has several dimensions. One main division is between what the majority group thinks it is about versus what the minority group thinks it is about. This paper examines the situation in Finland and Sweden, noting implications for linguistic diversity. Finland and Sweden contain five main varieties of…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Elementary Secondary Education, Finnish, Foreign Countries
Husen, Torsten, Ed.; Opper, Susan, Ed. – 1983
Papers in this collection were presented at a 1982 symposium convened to address the question, "What is the best way to provide school education for immigrant children?" The papers (and their authors) include (1) "The Social and Ideological Context of Multicultural Education in Immigrant Countries" (Ronald Taft); (2)…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adjustment (to Environment), Biculturalism, Bilingual Education
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). – 1978
The report consists of four case studies which show the extent and importance of the problem of education of migrant workers and their families as seen by Finland, France, Sweden, and Yugoslavia. Dealing mainly with the education of second generation Finnish workers in Sweden, the first study addresses the teaching of the mother tongue and the…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Case Studies