Challenges for Multicultural Education: Sociolinguistic Parallels Between African American English and Haitian Creole.

Zephir, Flore

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Publication Date: 1999

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Challenges for Multicultural Education: Sociolinguistic Parallels Between African American English and Haitian Creole.

Zephir, Flore

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, v20 n2 p134-54 1999

Focuses on the issue of Black native languages in the educational system in the context of curricular reforms emanating from the multicultural education movement. Examines how multicultural education has dealt with the needs and concerns of African Americans and Haitians. Looks at well-publicized African American and Haitian educational events in the United States. (Author/VWL)

Descriptors: Academic Failure, Black Dialects, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Haitian Creole, Haitians, Language of Instruction, Language Role, Language Variation, Multicultural Education, Power Structure, Sociolinguistics, Standard Spoken Usage, Student Needs

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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