The language activist Tove Skutnabb-Kangas calls it 'linguistic
genocide'. She argues forcefully that the best 'package' is 8-10 years
of mother-tongue medium education with good quality and gradual
teaching of the dominant language(s) by bilingual teachers in
non-fee-paying state schools. She says that all the education-research
shows that this is the most inclusive model, especially for children
of minority groups and indigenous peoples.

See

Dunbar, Robert & Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove (2008). Forms of Education of
Indigenous Children as Crimes Against Humanity? Expert paper written
for the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (PFII).
New York: PFII. [In PFII' system: "Presented by Lars-Anders Baer, in
collaboration with Robert Dunbar, Tove Skutnabb-Kangas and Ole Henrik
Magga"]. http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/documents/E_C19_2008_7.pdf

A more accesible version is her talk (in English) "Language, Education
and (violations of) Human Rights" which can be heard at
http://www.linguistic-rights.org/tove-skutnabb-kangas/ - it can also
be downloaded (as an mp3 file) at
http://www.linguistic-rights.org/sonoj/12_Tove_Skutnabb-Kangas_Language_Education_and_(violations_of)_Human_Rights_1012.mp3

There is also a PDF version of her talk at
http://www.linguistic-rights.org/dokumento/Geneve_24_April_2008_UEA_UNHCHR.pdf

This was a keynote that she gave in April 2008 at a symposium
"Linguistic Rights in the World, the current situation: A Symposium to
commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the Universal Esperanto
Association and the 60th Anniversary of the Declaration of Human
Rights".

Regards

A Giridhar RAO
Universal Esperanto Association

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