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The following pages are devoted to a bibliography which, though not exhaustive, provides an extensive set of references to several categories of literature in language economics. It consolidates the respective literature lists used by the authors over the years in their research and teaching....
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We model political contestation over school language policy, within linguistic communities where weak property rights protection leads to high decentralized expropriation. We show that improvements in governance institutions that facilitate property rights protection might exacerbate such...
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The essay gives an overview of how language planning and language policy can be motivated and analyzed by economic methods. It is discussed what type of value language-related goods possess and what type of goods they are. Properties like degrees of rivalry, exclusion, and shielding and how they...
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When learning two languages of the same language family, one will realize quickly that there are similarities. But how deep are language and culture related? For long time the hypothesis that languages are responsible for cultural development was held to be true, later the opposite was assumed,...
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In Europe exist over 200 languages of which only 24 are official languages of the EU. What effect do have minority and regional languages onto prosperity? Is there any correlation between the language use and regional GDP per capita? How does affect the meaning of an own regional language the...
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This report presents and describes an evaluation project of the most recent Swedish curriculum reform, Curriculum for … generate new knowledge concerning the influences of international educational reform movements, national curriculum reforms and …, explanatory curriculum theory by relating the societal, the programmatic and the classroom curriculum level, (ii) add a …
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delivery of a major entrepreneurship curriculum reform in Rwanda. The reform introduced interactive pedagogy and a focus on … (i) six training sessions during school breaks, ii) exchange visits each term where teachers provided feedback to their … peers, and (iii) outreach and support from NGO staff at least twice per year. The program increased teachers' use of active …
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