Häftad, Engelska, 2013

Parents, Personalities and Power

Welsh-medium Schools in South-east Wales

Av Colin H. Williams, Huw Thomas

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Beskrivning

Parents, Personalities and Power: Welsh-medium Schools in South-east Wales is the first volume ever published to investigate in depth the interdependent influences on the phenomenal growth of such schools over the last half century. Derived from a sustained research investigation based in the School of Welsh, Cardiff University (2003 - 8), the research is set within a constantly evolving linguistic, social and political society. The authors underline the international interest in the sustainable and continuing growth of the Ysgolion Cymraeg, and, as the title suggests, note the various powers that have influenced the shaping of the Welsh-school movement. These reflect the increased interest in the language and identity of Wales and the future challenges these schools face.

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Utgivningsdatum: 2013-04-30
Mått: 156 x 234 x 28 mm
Vikt: 590 g
Format: Häftad
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 320
Förlag: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 9780708325841

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Huw Thomas is a former headteacher of Welsh-medium comprehensive schools and an adjunct member of the LPPR Unit at Cardiff University. Colin Williams is Research Professor and Director of the Language, Policy and Planning Research Unit at the School of Welsh, Cardiff University

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This well-balanced and detailed study of the involvement of government and parents to the successful growth of Welsh-medium schools in south-east Wales is a major contribution to our understanding of the possibilities of bilingual education and how it may be achieved. Although intended to advise Welsh parents of the nature of the process, it carries a basic message for all involved in trying to improve educational systems, making clear the important role of parents in sharing in the decision-making process. It adds Welsh-medium schools to the classic cases of successful parental intervention - the revitalization of Hebrew in the farming villages of Ottoman Palestine about 1890, the development of French-immersion classes in English-speaking schools in Quebec in the 1960s, and the regeneration of Maori through the grass-roots language nests of New Zealand in the 1980s.

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