The Linguistic Landscape of Educational Spaces: Language Revitalization and Schools in Southeastern Estonia
- K. Brown
- Education
- 2012
That a language can ‘come out of hiding’ or, as another teacher put it, ‘have a renaissance’, (Interview, June 2008) invites one to consider the material expression of emergent multilingualism in the…
Storylines about rural teachers in the United States: A narrative analysis of the literature
- M. Burton, K. Brown, A. Johnson
- Education
- 15 June 2013
This narrative literature analysis examines the storylines of rural teachers told through published research on rural teachers. Using a narrative analysis approach, we investigated research published…
Teachers as Language-Policy Actors: Contending with the Erasure of Lesser-Used Languages in Schools
- K. Brown
- Education, Sociology
- 1 September 2010
On the basis of an ethnographic study of the Voro-language revitalization in Estonia, this article explores the way teachers function as policy actors in the broader context of the school. As policy…
Estonian Schoolscapes and the Marginalization of Regional Identity in Education
- K. Brown
- Education
- 1 November 2005
78 Kara Brown is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Education Leadership and Policy Studies, Indiana University. This article is based on a project funded by the International Research and…
Regional Identity and Schools in Estonia: Creating a "We" Feeling?
- K. Brown
- Sociology
- 1 September 2008
Activists who are trying to preserve and revitalize the use of Võro, a regional language of southeastern Estonia spoken by only about 50,000 people, feel that the tongue is in jeopardy and that…
Language Policy Beyond the State
- Maarja Siiner, Kadri Koreinik, K. Brown
- Political Science
- 2017
Language nests on the move: The case of V
This article considers the circuitous route of knowledge exchange from South (New Zealand)-to North (Finland)-to regional South (Estonia) by examining the development of Voro language nests (…
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