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Phase transition in a sexual age-structured model of learning foreign languages

open access: yes, 2005
The understanding of language competition helps us to predict extinction and survival of languages spoken by minorities. A simple agent-based model of a sexual population, based on the Penna model, is built in order to find out under which circumstances ...
Chomsky N.   +4 more
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Citizenship and Education Policies in the post-Yugoslav States [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This paper explores interactions between citizenship and education policies in six post-Yugoslav contexts, focusing on group and individual education rights, ethnocentric, multicultural and civic elements of citizenship in education policies, and the ...
Pantic, Natasa
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Linguistic disenfranchisement, minority resistance and language revitalisation: The contributions of ethnolinguistic online communities in Zimbabwe

open access: yesCogent Arts & Humanities, 2018
Zimbabwe is a multicultural nation with multiple ethnolinguistic groups. Since 1980, when the country attained its independence from colonial rule, the government has struggled to fit all linguistic and cultural representations in the public domain. This
Phillip Mpofu, Abiodun Salawu
doaj   +1 more source

Researching Changing Language Learning Identities for Ethnic Minority Education Policy Formulation: A Case Study of Macau S.A.R., China

open access: yesFilologia e Linguística Portuguesa, 2011
 In this paper the authors discuss preliminary findings from research on language learning identities of ethnic minority groups for education policy formulation. The research aims to identify and interpret changing language identities, preferences, modes
Manuel Noronha, Ian Chaplin
doaj   +1 more source

Polish Interstate Relations with Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania After 1990 in the Context of the Situation of National Minorities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
When we compare the contemporary ethnic structure and national policy of Poland and its eastern neighbours, we can see clear asymmetry in both quantitative and legal-institutional aspects.
Barwiński, Marek
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Assimilation in Multilingual Cities [PDF]

open access: yes
Using the Public Use Microdata Files of the 2001 and 2006 Canadian Censuses, we study the determinants of the assimilation of language minorities into the city majority language. We show that official minority members (i.e.
Gregory Verdugo, Javier Ortega
core   +3 more sources

Education of national minorities in primary schools in the Republic of Serbia [PDF]

open access: yesSociološki Pregled, 2022
The position taken in this paper is that the development of a society depends on the status, role and importance of the educational system, and that education has a significant impact on personality formation.
Jovanović Marko S.   +1 more
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Les médias socionumériques et la participation des minorités francophones canadiennes à la vie politique

open access: yesTerminal, 2020
Social media has opened the door to new forms of participation and oppression for minority groups, but research on the use of these tools has not sufficiently taken into account the unique circumstances of national minorities. National minorities, unlike
Pascal Lupien
doaj   +1 more source

Minorités nationales des pays voisins en Hongrie

open access: yesBelgeo, 2013
Hungarian law officially recognizes 13 ethnic minorities: Armenian, Bulgarian, Croatian, German, Gipsy, Greek, Polish, Romanian, Ruthenian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, and Ukrainian.
Andrea Székely
doaj   +1 more source

An Expert Stakeholder's View on European Integration Challenges [PDF]

open access: yes
The standard approach of analyzing gaps in social and labor market outcomes of different ethnic groups relies on analysis of statistical data about the affected groups.
Constant, Amelie F.   +2 more
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