Frontmatter -- Dedication -- Contents -- Contributors -- Editors' Foreword -- Part 1 Introduction -- Chapter 1 Multilingual Education: A Bridge too Far? -- Part 2 Multilingual Education: Approaches and Constraints -- Chapter 2 Fundamental Psycholinguistic and Sociological Principles Underlying Educational Success for Linguistic Minority Students -- Chapter 3 Multilingual Education for Global Justice: Issues, Approaches, Opportunities -- Chapter 4 Designing Effective Schooling in Multilingual Contexts: Going Beyond Bilingual Models -- Part 3 Global and Local Tensions and Promises in Multilingual Education -- Chapter 5 The Tension Between Linguistic Diversity and Dominant English -- Chapter 6 Literacy and Bi/multilingual Education in Africa: Recovering Collective Memory and Expertise -- Chapter 7 Empowering Indigenous Languages - What can be Learned from Native American Experiences? -- Chapter 8 Education, Multilingualism and Translanguaging in the 21st Century -- Chapter 9 Privileging Indigenous Knowledges: Empowering Multilingual Education in Nepal -- Chapter 10 The Caste System Approach to Multilingualism in Canada: Linguistic and Cultural Minority Children in French Immersion -- Part 4 Multilingual Education in Theory and Practice - Diversity in Indigenous/Tribal Experience -- Chapter 11 The Contribution of Post-colonial Theory to Intercultural Bilingual Education in Peru: An Indigenous Teacher Training Programme -- Chapter 12 Reversing Language Shift Through a Native Language Immersion Teacher Training Programme in Canada -- Chapter 13 The Ethnic Revival, Language and Education of the Sámi, an Indigenous People, in Three Nordic Countries (Finland, Norway and Sweden) -- Chapter 14 Hundreds of Home Languages in the Country and many in most Classrooms: Coping with Diversity in Primary Education in India -- Chapter 15 Overcoming the Language Barrier for Tribal Children: Multilingual Education in Andhra Pradesh and Orissa, India -- Part 5 Analysing Prospects for Multilingual Education to Increase Social Justice -- Chapter 16 Language Matters, so does Culture: Beyond the Rhetoric of Culture in Multilingual Education -- Chapter 17 Multilingual Education Concepts, Goals, Needs and Expense: English for all or Achieving Justice? -- References -- Index