Languages, Minorities and Education in Spain: The case of Catalonia

Ferrer, Ferrán

doi:10.1080/713656610

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“…There might be greater scope to affect the returns to human capital at the local level, however, where regional assistance policies can encourage investment in new high-technology ventures which employ and train workers and hence yield extra returns from their human capital (Aitken, Harrison, and Lipsey, 1996;Lipsey and Sjöholm, 2004). And there is often scope for local initiatives to improve the quality of human capital and its relevance to employers (Ferrer, 2000;Carnau, 2004) and to implement national policies with a regional flavor (Spillane, 1999;Walker, 2004).…”

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Explaining Regional Variations in Entrepreneurship as Multiple Occupational Equilibria*

Parker¹

2005

J Regional Sci

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The paper proposes a human capital-based model of choice between paid employment and entrepreneurship that can give rise to multiple equilibria in occupational structure. The model is consistent with evidence of pronounced, persistent, and hitherto unexplained regional variations in entrepreneurship. Whether multiple equilibria emerge is shown to depend on the occupation-specific productivity of human capital and the costs of human and financial capital. The paper goes on to discuss the implications for governments seeking to promote entrepreneurship as a tool of regional development policy.

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Explaining Regional Variations in Entrepreneurship as Multiple Occupational Equilibria*

Parker¹

2005

J Regional Sci

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“…In this regard, one interpretation could be that "the linguistic modalities of Spain" are only the different dialects of Castilian. According to Ferrer (2000), Article 3.2 can be interpreted not only as a possibility, but also as a mandate, i.e. mandatory in effect, which guarantees the linguistic plurality of the territory.…”

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The legal rights of Aragonese-speaking schoolchildren

Torres-Oliva

Petreñas

Huguet

et al. 2019

LPLP

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Aragon is an autonomous community within Spain where, historically, three languages are spoken: Aragonese, Catalan, and Castilian Spanish. Both Aragonese and Catalan are minority and minoritised languages within the territory, while Castilian Spanish, the majority language, enjoys total legal protection and legitimation. The fact that we live in the era of the nation-state is crucial for understanding endangered languages in their specific socio-political context. This is why policies at macro-level and micro-level are essential for language maintenance and equality. In this article, we carry out an in-depth analysis of 57 documents: international and national legal documents, education reports, and education curricula. The aims of the paper are: (1) to analyse the current state of Aragonese language teaching in primary education in Aragon, and (2) to suggest solutions and desirable policies to address the passive bilingualism of Aragonese-speaking schoolchildren. We conclude that although Aragon is a trilingual community, education policy actually does not reflect this reality. There is also a need to implement language policies (bottom-up and top-down initiatives) to promote compulsory education in a minoritised language. We therefore propose a linguistic model that brings to the forefront minority languages. This study may contribute to research into Aragonese-Castilian bilingualism in contexts of possible language loss.

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“…Desde entonces y en adelante, se viene sosteniendo que la participación de los estudiantes en programas de este tipo no les ocasiona pérdida alguna ni en su cultura ni en su lengua materna; y que, bien al contrario, reportan considerables beneficios y contribuyen a la consolidación del bilingüismo en las sociedades en las que se aplican. España, sin duda, no ha sido una excepción en el diseño de programas de inmersión lingüística, y de ello son buena muestra los modelos aplicados en el País Vasco y Cataluña, plenamente consolidados (Siguan, 1992;Vila, 1995Vila, , 1998Ferrer, 2000;Torres-Guzmán y Etxeberría, 2005;Huguet, 2006Huguet, , 2007Rendon, 2007), si bien en ambos casos dicha inmersión merece algunas precisiones -por cuanto, en general, la inmersión solo se aplica estrictamente con perfiles concretos de alumnos, y no en el modelo educativo general.…”

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Educación bilingüe y actitudes lingüísticas en Els Ports (Castellón) y Matarranya (Teruel)

Martínez

2012

UTE

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ResumenEl análisis de las actitudes hacia el catalán y hacia la educación bilingüe en las vecinas comarcas de Els Ports (Castellón) y Matarranya (Teruel), continúa demostrando que en ambas comarcas catalán y español conviven todavía hoy en una situación de diglosia. Sin embargo, es sencillo documentar una diferente percepción acerca de la presencia del catalán en el sistema educativo entre los habitantes de Els Ports y los de Matarranya. En esta investigación, por medio de la técnica de la entrevista sociolingüística, intentamos sondear, precisamente, cuáles son esas actitudes hacia la educación bilingüe, en catalán y en castellano. Tras ese análisis, no queda ninguna duda de que las actitudes son mucho menos positivas en Matarranya que en Els Ports. Como consecuencia de ello, concluimos que la puesta en marcha de políticas educativas bilingües, como las que rigen en otras zonas catalanohablantes, se configura como una de las soluciones para mejorar la situación sociolingüística de Matarranya.Palabras clave: actitudes lingüísticas, educación bilingüe, diglosia, catalán, español Bilingual education and linguistic attitudes in Els Ports (Castellón) and Matarranya (Teruel) AbstractAn analysis of the attitudes towards Catalan and the bilingual education in the adjacent regions of Els Ports (in the province of Castellón, Spain) and Matarranya (in the province of Teruel, Spain) shows that in both areas, Catalan and Spanish coexist today in a diglossic situation, but we can easyly document a very different perception of the presence of Catalan in the educational system between the inhabitants from

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Languages, Minorities and Education in Spain: The case of Catalonia

Cited by 15 publications

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Explaining Regional Variations in Entrepreneurship as Multiple Occupational Equilibria*

Explaining Regional Variations in Entrepreneurship as Multiple Occupational Equilibria*

The legal rights of Aragonese-speaking schoolchildren

Educación bilingüe y actitudes lingüísticas en Els Ports (Castellón) y Matarranya (Teruel)

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