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Date and Time 26 February 2018 - 26 February 2018 From: 4:00PM To: 6:00PM
Event Organizer The Hellenic Heritage Foundation Chair of Modern Greek History-York University, Founders College and
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Address/ Venue Founders Senior Common Room FC 305, York University Toronto, ONTARIO, Canada
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You are invited to the Book Launch Handbook of Research and Practice in Heritage Language Education, published by Springer international handbooks of education, 2018.
The volume, edited by Peter Pericles Trifonas (OISE/UofT) and Themistoklis Aravossitas (CERES/UofT, DLLL/York University) covers the multidimensional and international field of Heritage Language Education, including concepts, practices, and the correlation between culture and language from the perspectives of pedagogy and research. Heritage Language Learning is a new dimension in both the linguistic and pedagogic sciences and is linked to processes of identity negotiation and cultural inheritance. Heritage languages play an important role ensuring the balance between coherence and pluralism in contemporary societies that have come to realize that diversity is an advantage for social, cultural, and economic reasons. The volume includes topics like First Nation indigenous languages, languages in diaspora, immigrant and minority languages, and contributions from North, central and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. It addresses the social, linguistic, and cultural issues in educational contexts in a new way by taking up questions of globalization, difference, community, identity, democracy, ethics, politics, technology, language rights and cultural policies through the evolving field of Heritage Language Education.
Date/Time: Monday 26 February 2018, 16:00-18:00
Venue: Founders Senior Common Room FC 305, York University, Toronto
Sponsored by: The Hellenic Heritage Foundation Chair of Modern Greek History-York University, Founders College and Department of Languages, Literatures and linguistics, York University
Themistoklis Aravossitas, PhD
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Course Director-Modern Greek Language & Culture
141 Founders College
Department of Languages, Literatures & Linguistics
York University
Email: travoss@yorku.ca