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Parents, Personalities and Power: Welshmedium Schools in Southeast Wales,Used
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Product Description In Parents, Personalities and Power, Huw S. Thomas and Colin H. Williams draw on research conducted at the Language, Policy, and Planning Research Unit of the School of Welsh, Cardiff University, to examine the implementation of current education policies in medium schools in Southeast Wales, looking in particular at the growth of bilingual education. The book will appeal to those who share an interest in social developments in Welsh and European education. Review This wellbalanced and detailed study of the involvement of government and parents in the successful growth of Welshmedium school in southeast Wales is a major contribution to our understanding of the possibilities of bilingual education and how it may be achieved. It adds Welshmedium schools to the classic cases of successful parental interventionthe revitalization of Hebrew in the farming villages of Ottoman Palestine around 1890, the development of Frenchimmersion classes in Englishspeaking schools in Qubec in the 1960s, and the regeneration of Maori through the grassroots language nests of New Zealand in the 1980s. Bernard Spolsky, BarIlan University, IsraelWith this book, grassroots movements and especially the agency of parents take central stage. It is a tribute to the important role that Welsh parents have had in the construction of Welshmedium education, but it offers also a multilayered and complex analysis of the future, pointing to some of the challenges of preserving the vision of the past while innovating for an increasingly diverse and multilingual Europe. It offers hope for the continued engagement of parents and grassroots movements, as Welshmedium education becomes mainstreamed and professionalized. Ofelia Garcia, Graduate Center, CUNYLanguage revival is born out of the passion, commitment, and mobilization of minority language communities themselves. These communities are in turn based on activities, parents, teachers, and students. This remarkably rich volume on Welshlanguage schooling in southeast Wales highlights the key policy and political developments, and the key people involved in them, that have seen Cymraeg return not only as a language of educational instruction but also as a language of the wider civic realm. Stephen May, University of Auckland About the Author Huw S. Thomas is a former headmaster of Welshmedium comprehensive schools and an adjunct member of the LPPR Unit at Cardiff University.Colin H. Williams is research professor in and director of the Language, Policy, and Planning Research Unit at the School of Welsh, Cardiff University.
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