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Title Parents, personalities and power : Welsh-medium schools in South-East Wales / edited by Huw S. Thomas and Colin H. Williams
Published Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xxxi, 334 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Foreword; Preface and acknowledgements; List of Maps and Tables; Maps showing location of Welsh-medium schools in south-east Wales; Notes on Contributors; Abbreviations; Glossary of terms; An Act of Faith; A Dynamic Profile; The Shifting Impact of Language and Identity; Understanding Power; The Articulation of Power; An Evolving Synergy; Future Prospects for Welsh-medium Education:Reflections from a Recent Migrant; Parent Power; Local Authorities and Welsh-medium Education; School Reorganisation: A Lesson in How Not to Do It. The Case of Canton, Cardiff West
The School Phenomenon: Encouraging Social Language Use Patterns in Welsh-medium EducationTransforming Strategies: Pathways to an Integral Education System; Bibliography; Index
Summary This pioneering volume is the first ever to investigate in depth the myriad interconnected influences on the phenomenal growth of Welsh-medium schools over the last half century and probe the foreseeable challenges that they will have to face
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Education, Secondary -- Wales, South
EDUCATION -- Secondary.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
Education, Secondary
South Wales
Form Electronic book
Author Thomas, Huw S.
Williams, Colin H.
ISBN 9780708325858
0708325858
070832584X
9780708325841
9781306495264
1306495261
9781783160358
1783160357