Overview
- Offers insights on the Yi minority in China from an educationalist perspective
- Compares the Chinese educational policies and practices as applied over the past 30 years
- Contains indepth interviews with members of the Yi community, photographs of the linguistic landscape that surrounds them
- Investigates the language attitudes and cultural identities of Yi students
Part of the book series: Multilingual Education (MULT, volume 31)
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Table of contents(7 chapters)
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China
Lubei Zhang
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The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Linda Tsung
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Bilingual Education and Minority Language Maintenance in China
Book Subtitle: The Role of Schools in Saving the Yi Language
Authors: Lubei Zhang, Linda Tsung
Series Title: Multilingual Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03454-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-03453-5Published: 21 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-03454-2Published: 10 January 2019
Series ISSN: 2213-3208
Series E-ISSN: 2213-3216
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 165
Number of Illustrations: 56 b/w illustrations
Topics: Language Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Chinese, Minority Languages, Multilingualism