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Linguistic Dominance and the Challenges Worldwide for Minority Languages and Voices

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Revitalizing Minority Voices

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The chapters collected in this book were developed from papers presented at the XV World Congress of Comparative Education Societies held in Buenos Aires, Argentina in June of 2013. The overall theme of this conference, New Times, New Voices, calls for a forward-thinking, change-oriented perspective on comparative and international education and, in our interpretation, also an inclusive one.

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Depalma, R., Napier, D.B., Dze-Ngwa, W. (2015). Linguistic Dominance and the Challenges Worldwide for Minority Languages and Voices. In: DePalma, R., Napier, D.B., Dze-Ngwa, W. (eds) Revitalizing Minority Voices. The World Council of Comparative Education Societies. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-187-8_1

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