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Valeriya Minakova – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Changing orientations to language, informed by poststructuralism and postcolonialism, challenge modernist representations of languages as bounded entities, tied to particular territories and identities (Canagarajah, 2019; Makoni and Pennycook, 2007). Viewing language as a hybrid and fluid practice, these developments question the theoretical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Maintenance, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Populations
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Karamurzov, B. S. – Russian Education and Society, 2014
The regional universities in Russia are an important resource for the development of Russian society, but more needs to be done to increase their effectiveness, including tackling corruption and leveraging local competitive advantages.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Regional Schools, Universities, Educational Improvement
Hills, Gordon H. – 1997
This book draws on an extensive literature review and personal experience to examine cross-cultural issues in the development of libraries for Arctic indigenous communities. Although the book highlights circumstances in Alaska, its geographical scope is circumpolar, including Canada, Greenland, and the former Soviet Union and present-day Russian…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, American Indians, Biculturalism