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Linguistic Diversity (linguistic + diversity)

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Humanities and Social Sciences50%

Selected Abstracts

Sustaining Linguistic Diversity: Endangered and Minority Languages and Language Varieties , Edited by Kendall A. King, Natalie Schilling-Estes, Lyn Fogle, Jia Jackie Lou, and Barbara Soukup

ANTHROPOLOGY & EDUCATION QUARTERLY, Issue 2 2009
Kara D. Brown
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Child Maltreatment in Diverse Households: Challenges to Law, Theory, and Practice

JOURNAL OF LAW AND SOCIETY, Issue 1 2008
Julia Brophy
In the United Kingdom relatively little attention has been paid to ,race' and racism and the role of cultural, religious, and linguistic diversity in care proceedings. This paper will look at the background, law, and guidance on diversity in this field and explore the impact of notions of diversity in evidence before the courts. It will look at their relevance in allegations of 'significant harm' to children and failures of parenting, and the coverage of diverse backgrounds in expert reports and parents' statements. It will argue that while there is no evidence that the threshold criteria for a care order require reassessing, there is room for considerable improvement in attention to issues of diversity in evidence and in the experiences of parents attending court. The paper will explore the implications of the studies for theorizing law and the duties of the state and look at notions such as cultural relativism and concepts imported from cultural anthropology for determining culturally acceptable parenting. It will highlight problems with these approaches and demonstrate why ,paradigms of intersectionality' is a more useful and robust approach. [source]

The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages: Ten Years of Protecting and Promoting Linguistic and Cultural Diversity

MUSEUM INTERNATIONAL, Issue 3 2008
Alexey Kozhemyakov
With about 250 languages spoken throughout Greater Europe, the European continent represents an excellent testing-ground for finding the proper identity and fostering the mutual understanding of linguistic groups, and promoting the perception of linguistic diversity as a part of national and all-European cultural wealth. [source]

International Family, Adult, and Child Enhancement Services (FACES): A Community-Based Comprehensive Services Model for Refugee Children in Resettlement

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ORTHOPSYCHIATRY, Issue 1 2008
Dina Birman PhD
The development of evidence-based mental health interventions for refugees is complicated by the cultural and linguistic diversity of the participants, and the need to balance treatment of past traumatic experiences with ongoing support during the process of acculturation. In an effort to gather "practice-based evidence" from existing mental health services for refugees, a collaborative study of International Family, Adult, and Child Enhancement Services (FACES), a comprehensive, community-based mental health program working with refugee children, was conducted to describe the program participants and service delivery model and to assess whether participants improved over time as a function of services. Results showed that participants improved, but that the improvement was not related to dosage of services. Implications of these findings for refugee mental health services are discussed and suggestions are made for future evaluation research of mental health services with refugees. [source]