Heritage: Owned or assigned?: The cultural politics of teaching heritage language in Osaka, Japan

Critical Asian Studies

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 111-138

  Okubo, Yuko ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL HERITAGE; EDUCATION; EMPOWERMENT; ETHNIC MINORITY; IMMIGRANT; LANGUAGE; MULTICULTURALISM; SOCIAL JUSTICE; TEACHING;

HONSHU; JAPAN; KINKI; OSAKA [KINKI];

EID: 77951064262     PISSN: 14672715     EISSN: 14726033     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14672710903537530     Document Type: Article

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