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Grassroots & Globalization: Bringing the Võro-Language Movement into Southeastern Estonian Schools (Research Brief)

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My project is designed to understand better how the politics of language intersect with policy appropriation. More specifically, I examine the contrasting and sometimes contradictory understandings of regional-language policy that have frustrated the implementation of school-based, regional-language preservation programs through a case study of the Võro-language revitalization policies in southeastern Estonian schools.

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Kara D. Brown, of Indiana University, was a 2001-02 Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO) [8] fellow.

Author: 
Kara D. Brown
Publication Date: 
September 30, 2002
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