TY - BOOK AU - Spolsky, Bernard TI - Language and education in multilingual settings SN - 9780905028583 U1 - 370.117 PY - 1986/// CY - Clevedon, Avon, England : PB - Multilingual Matters, KW - Language policy KW - Multilingualism KW - Language and education N1 - Introduction -- ; Educational use of the mother tongue -- ; Towards a typology of languages of instruction in multilingual societies -- ; Factors affecting bilingualism in national languages and Russian in a developed socialist society -- ; Multilingual education: theory East and West -- ; Schools as agents for language revival in Ireland and New Zealand -- ; Namibian educational language planning: English for liberation or neo-colonialism? -- ; National language policy in the Philippines -- ; Linguistic consequences of ethnicity and nationalism in multilingual settings -- ; Who wants to change what and why: conflicting paradigms in minority education research -- ; Overcoming language barriers to education in a multilingual world N2 - This book explores the difference between languages that children learn in the home and the languages valued by society and established as the medium of instruction in schools is an almost universal ER -