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Comparative Studies Research, Kara Brown Feb 2012

Comparative Studies Research, Kara Brown

Kara D. Brown

No abstract provided.


Taba, Hilda (1902–1967), Kara Brown, Edgar Krull Feb 2012

Taba, Hilda (1902–1967), Kara Brown, Edgar Krull

Kara D. Brown

No abstract provided.


Teachers As Language-Policy Actors: Contending With The Erasure Of Lesser-Used Languages In Schools, Kara Brown Feb 2012

Teachers As Language-Policy Actors: Contending With The Erasure Of Lesser-Used Languages In Schools, Kara Brown

Kara D. Brown

On the basis of an ethnographic study of the Võro-language revitalization in Estonia, this article explores the way teachers function as policy actors in the broader context of the school. As policy actors, the language teachers' appropriation of regional–language policy helps simultaneously to reproduce and challenge existing ideologies in the school environment. I explore the teachers' understandings of their power and freedom to inform their navigation of the circumscribed choices offered in a post-Soviet educational system. [language, anthropology of policy, teachers, Baltic]


Review Of “Sustaining Linguistic Diversity: Endangered And Minority Languages And Language Varieties”, Kara Brown Feb 2012

Review Of “Sustaining Linguistic Diversity: Endangered And Minority Languages And Language Varieties”, Kara Brown

Kara D. Brown

No abstract provided.


Rural Education, Kara Brown Feb 2012

Rural Education, Kara Brown

Kara D. Brown

No abstract provided.


Lau V. Nichols, Kara Brown Feb 2012

Lau V. Nichols, Kara Brown

Kara D. Brown

No abstract provided.