TOVE Anita SKUTNABB-KANGAS, dr.phil.
Curriculum vitae (some extracts only/otteita /bitar)
(päivitetty /uppdaterad/
updated/ aktualigita: elokuu/
augusti/ August/ aŭgusto 2011)
BORN in Helsinki, Finland, 6
July 1940
NATIONALITY
Finnish
MOTHER TONGUES Finnish
and Swedish
Other languages known: English, German, Danish, Norwegian, a bit of some
others
PLACE OF PERMANENT RESIDENCE Denmark
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1959 Graduated from Vaasan Tyttölyseo
(Vaasa High School for Girls)
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1962 BA, University of Helsinki (Nordic languages, Education,
Psychology, Literature, Philosophy)
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1965 MA, University of Helsinki
(majoring in both Nordic languages and Education)
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1966-67 Teacher Training
College, pedagogical teacher training,
Helsinki
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1975 Official highest level Interpreter
and Translator Examination, Helsinki
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1976 First PhD (Licentiate of Philosophy), University of Helsinki
(thesis on Bilingualism and school achievement, 368 pages)
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1987 Second PhD (Advanced
Doctorate, dr.phil.), Roskilde University.
Retired
but still, since 1993: Åbo Akademi University, Vasa,
Finland, part-time reader/Associate Professor (docent) in Education, with Speciality in Minority Education and Linguistic Human
Rights.
Earlier
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1964-66 Espoon
Ammattikoulu, Finland, (Espoo Vocational School),
teacher of Swedish language arts and Social Science (for Swedish-speaking
pupils in a bilingual school).
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1967-68
Harvard University, USA, Dept of Nordic Languages (research assistant for prof.
Einar Haugen).
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1968-69 Rudolf Steiner
School, Helsinki, Finland, teacher of Swedish as L2 and German (for
Finnish-speaking pupils).
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1969-70 Comprehensive
schools, Helsinki, Finland, teacher of Swedish as L2 in observational classes
(special education).
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1970-76 University of
Helsinki, Dept. of Nordic Languages, Finland, assistant, lecturer, assistant
professor.
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1970-71 (5 months) Finnish
Radio, School Radio Languages Section, programme
coordinator.
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1978-1980 Finnish Academy
(coordinating central research body), research assistant.
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1980-81 Danish Social
Sciences Research Council, researcher
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1984-1988 Finnish Academy,
director of the research project The Education of the Finnish Minority in
Sweden (with prof. Pertti Toukomaa);
director of its subproject Communication Strategies of Finnish Youngsters in
Sweden
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1987 Swedish Humanities Reserch Council, research project Migrant Women as Crisis
Solvers (with dr. Aleksandra Ålund)
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1990-93 Copenhagen
University, Denmark, Minority Studies, (part-time) Assoc. Professor (ekstern lektor).
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1995-2000 Roskilde
University, Denmark, Associate Professor; part-time reader; guest researcher
1979-2007. Retired.
Boards, Advisory Committees, Scientific Associations, etc:
At present
·
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura
(Finnish Literature Society),
member, 1989-; corresponding member 2010-
· CRITICS (Centers for Research Into Text/Talk, Information and Communication in Society) Foundation, founding member and member of the Board from start 1994- to 2008; Advisory Board member 2008-
· Terralingua, Partnerships for Linguistic and Biological Diversity; founding member 1996; Vice-President; Member of Board of Directors; Member of Executive Board, all 1997-2004. Member of Advisory Committee 2004-. http://www.terralingua.org
·
International Center for Writing and Translation, University of
California Irvine, Member of
Executive Board (2006-). http://www.humanities.uci.edu/icwt/
·
Censor at Copenhagen
University, Faculty of Arts,
2002-2010.
· EU Turkey Civic Commission (EUTCC), member of Advisory Council since 2005 (EUTCC is a civic commission to monitor Turkish Compliance with the criteria set by the EU; established by the Rafto Foundation (Norway), Kurdish Human Rights Project (UK), Medico International (Germany) and the Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales). www.eutcc.org
·
IASR (International Association for the Study of
Racism), Board member from
start 1991-2008; Advisory Board member 2009-
·
Minority Research Network, University of Rotterdam, The Netherlands (director professor
Kristin Henrard) www.frg.eur.nl/minorityresearchnetwork/
Member of the International
Advisory Board, from the beginning, 2008-
·
National
Multilingual Education Resource Consortium, Jawaharlar
Nehru University, Delhi, India (http://www.nmrc-jnu.org/), International
Advisor (from the beginning 2009-)
Earlier
·AFinLA (Finnish Association for Applied Linguistics), Secretary from its start
1970-1972, Board Member 1970-72, 1975-76.
·Nordic Summer University, leader of several groups 1970-1973, member of the Finnish Board 1970-73, member of the Nordic Board
1971-73.
·Norden Association, Chair of the Cultural Policy Committee 1970-72, Chair of the Language
Policy Committee 1970-79, member and Vice-President of the Helsinki Board
1971-79, member of the Central Nordic Board 1973-79.
·Nordic Association of
Immigrant and Minority Researchers, Board Member from
the start (to end) 1981-1986.
·The National Union of
Finnish Associations in Sweden, Board member of the
Research Policy
Committee from the start (to end), 1983-1991.
·Elverum Namibia Association (Norway), member of the Educational Language Planning for Namibia-group
1982-1988.
·World University Service, Denmark, member of the Southern Africa Educational group 1982-1990.
·ADLA (Danish Association for Applied Linguistics), Board member 1984-86.
·Institut für
Migrations- und Rassismusforschung (Hamburg, Germany), Board member of the Wissenschaftliche
Beirat from the start, 1987 to the end 1993.
·AILA (International Association for Applied Linguistics), President of the Scientific Commission
of Language and Education in Multilingual Settings (together with prof. Bernard
Spolsky), 1984-1993.
·ISA (International Sociological Association), Research Committee on Ethnic,
Race and Minority Relations, Vice-President 1986-90, Board member, 1986-1993.
·International Network of
Researchers on Linguistic Human Rights,
joint coordinator (with Robert Phillipson) from start
to end 1986-1994.
·DKKM (Den Danske Komité
for Kurdernes Menneskerettigheder)
(=The Danish Committee for Human Rights for the Kurds), Board member from the
start, 1991-1998; Advisory Board member (to end) 1998-2000.
·Kurd-lal
(Kurdish Research Network), Coordinator for linguistic
human rights, from the start 1995-2000.
·CRITICS International
Foundation (CRITICS = Critical Research Into Text/Talk, Information and Communication
in Society), Board member, from the start, 1994 to the end 1999.
·ECMI (European Centre for
Minority Issues), Flensburg, Germany, Advisory Council member,
1999-2002.
·OSCE High Commissioner on
National Minorities, member of Expert mission
to Slovakia and Hungary, 1996; member of Expert Committee drawing up The Hague
Recommendations Reagarding Minority Education Rights
and The Hague Recommendations - Explanatory Note 1996.
·University of California
Educational Research Center, Fresno, Advisory
Committee, Founding member (by invitation), from the start, until the center
ceased to exist, 1994-1998.
·Language Policy Research
Center, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, International Advisory Committee Member (by invitation), from
the start, 1995-
·Académie Internationale de Droit Linguistique / International Academy of Language Law (since 1992), Member (by invitation).
·Center
for Konfliktløsning (Centre for Conflict Resolution),
Copenhagen, Denmark, Member of Akademiet
(Advisory Board) by invitation, from the start, 1994-2000).
Editor:
Series editor for the book series Linguistic
Diversity and Language Rights (Multilingual Matters), 2003-, http://www.multilingual-matters.com/series/series_ldlr.asp?TAG=&CID=
Earlier:
- ABES, Annotated
Bibliography for English Studies, Swets
and Zeitlinger, joint editor (with Robert Phillipson) for 'International Englishes
and Language Policy', 1998-2003.
- Series editor for the book series Multilingualism
and Linguistic Diversity (Swets & Zeitlinger), 1998-2002.
Editorial Boards:
At present:
·
Discourse and Society, Advisory Board member from the start,
1989-1999; 1999- Honorary Advisory Board
·
Language Problems and Language
Planning, member of the
Editorial Board, 1997-.
·
Ibero-American Journal on Critical Discourse Analysis, member of the Advisory Board, from the
start, 1998-.
·
Language Policy, member of the
Editorial Board, from the
start, 2001-
·
Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, member of the Editorial Board, from the start,
2001-
·
Critical Inquiry in Language
Studies: An International Journal, member of the Editorial Board, from the start, 2003-
·
The International Journal of Multilingualism, member of the Editorial Board, from the start,
2003-
·
Porta Linguarum, member of the Scientific Committee of
the Editorial Board, from the start 2003-
·
AlterNative journal, member
of the International Advisory Board, from the start 2005-
·
Journal of Multilingual
Education, member of the
Editorial Board, from the start, 2010-
·
Studies in International
Minority and Group Rights,
book series (Martinus Nijhoff
Publishers/Brill, series editors Gudmundur Alfredsson and Kristin Henrard),
member of Advisory Board, from the start, 2009-
Earlier:
Nordisk Minoritetsforskning, later Invandrare och Minoriteter/Nordic Minority Research Journal, editor
from the start 1973-1993 (later local Danish editor).
International Education
Journal, member of the Editorial Board, 1983-1984.
The
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, member of the Editorial Board, 1982-1996.
Referee for journals:
·
Discourse
and Society
·
Language
Problems and Language Planning
·
Ibero-American Journal on Critical Discourse Analysis
·
Language
Policy, member of the Editorial Board
·
Journal of Language, Identity, and Education
·
Critical
Inquiry in Language Studies: An International Journal
·
The International Journal of Multilingualism
·
Porta Linguarum
·
AlterNative journal,
·
Journal
of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
·
International
Journal of Applied Linguistics
·
Asian
and Pacific Migration Journal
·
Language
and Education
·
Language
Sciences
·
International
Review of Education (UNESCO Institute for Education)
·
Journal
of Human Rights
·
Journal
of Sociolinguistics
·
Ethnicities
·
International
Journal of Educational Development
·
Patterns
of Prejudice: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/0031322X.asp
·
Psychological
Studies
·
Sign
Language Studies
Referee of research proposals
- European Science Foundation,
- Norwegian Research Council,
- Austrian Science Fund.
Recent projects
·
Project From Mother Tongue To
Other Tongue: facilitating transition in multilingual education of tribal
children in India, Member of
International Advisory Committee (Project directed by professors Ajit K.
Mohanty & Minati Panda, Zakir
Husain Centre for Educational Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, and
financed by Bernard van Leer Foundation), from the start 2006-
·
Project Multilingual Education
Programme for all non-Nepali Speaking Students of Primary Schools of Nepal”, international consultant (the Ministry of
Government of Nepal, Ministry of Education and Sports, and Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of Finland), 2007-2009.
Publications - see separate lists of publications
Entries about TSK in
professional encyclopedias, etc:
Nationalencyklopedin, Sweden (ed. for linguistics prof. Claes-Christian
Elert, 1996)
Encyclopedia on Bilingualism
and Bilingual Education (ed. Colin
Baker, Multilingual Matters, UK, 1997)
Vem och Vad. Biografisk handbok, Finland (main editor Henrik Ekberg, Helsingfors: Schildts, 1996, p. 539).
Who's Who in the World, since 16th edition, 1999 (New Providence, NJ: Marquis Who's Who).
Kansallisbiografia [The National Biographies], Suomi/Finland, 2008 (http://artikkelihaku.kansallisbiografia.fi/artikkeli/9501/)
External Examiner of PhDs abroad;
professorial committees
University of Oulu, Dept of Finnish and Sámi, Finland
(Marjut Aikio; dr.phil.)
University of Alberta, Dept of Psychology, U.S.A.
(Laura Ho, PhD).
University of Hyderabad, India, Dept of Linguistics and Translation
Studies (Shailendra Kumar Singh, PhD).
University of Adelaide, Dept of Linguistics, Australia
(Rob Amery), PhD.
University of Toronto, OISE (Ontario Institute for
Studies in Education), Modern Language Center (Shelley Taylor, PhD).
University of Adelaide, Australia (rejected the candidate).
University of Helsinki, Dept of Social Policy (Kristiina Koivunen, dr.pol.)
University of Gothenburg, African languages, Sweden
(Tove Rosendal).
Professorial Committees or
Referee: University of Tromsø,
Norway; University of Toronto, Canada; University of Oslo, Norway; Colombia
University, Teachers College, USA.
PhDs supervised
Mart Rannut, University of Tartu, Estonia,
2003
Lava Deo Awasthi,
Danish Pedagogical University, Denmark, 2005
Francis Hult, University of Pennsylvania,
Pittsburg, USA, 2007
Awards
Recipient of one of the two 2003 Linguapax Prizes. The
Linguapax Prizes are awarded "to linguists,
researchers, professors and members of the civil society in acknowledgement of
their outstanding work in the field of linguistic diversity and/or multilingual
education". "Among more than twenty nominations received from all
over the world, the Jury of the Linguapax awards,
formed by the members of the Steering and Advisory Committee of the Linguapax Institute has decided to award this year Ms. Tove
Skutnabb-Kangas and Ms. Aina Moll. During the spring
[2003], a public ceremony will be held to deliver personally the awards to the
prizewinners". See
www.linguapax.org/en/premisLPXang.html The prizewinners names were published 21st. February, 2003, on UNESCO's
International Mother Language Day.
Recipient of the Carl
Axel Gottlund prize, 2003 (Sweden).
LECTURES,
COURSES, CONFERENCES etc
Guest lectures in at least 48 countries: at every Finnish, Swedish and
Norwegian university, most of them tens of times, and at most Danish and German
universities. Lectures at universities (and conferences) in Aotearoa/New
Zealand, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Canada, Croatia,
(the) Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India,
Israel, Italy, Japan, Kurdistan (both North Kurdistan – “Turkish
Kurdistan”- and South Kurdistan – “Iraqi
Kurdistan”), Latvia, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Mali, (The) Mari Republic,
Mauritius, Mexico, Nepal, The Netherlands, Russia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia,
Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, UK, United Arab Emirates,
USA, Zambia, many of them tens of times.
Initiator,
organiser, chairperson etc for numerous Finnish,
Swedish, Nordic, multilateral and international conferences, symposia etc,
(among them The First Nordic Conference on Bilingualism (1976), The First
Scandinavian-German Conference on the Language of Immigrant Workers and their
Children (1978)) and sections and symposia at international congresses.
Over 1000
lectures, workshops and courses (up to several weeks), all over the world, for
teachers, minority parents, school administrators, students, researchers,
politicians etc.
Plenary/keynote
speaker at several hundred conferences, symposia etc.
Assessor
of book manuscripts, peer reviewer, referee etc. of several hundreds of
articles etc in many countries; consultant of varied projects in many countries
at most imaginable levels.
Visiting Scholar:
- University of Lund, Dept of Education, Sweden, 1974, 1977, 1978, one
term each time
- Institute of Education, University of London, UK 1983 (one term)
- University of Melbourne, Australia 1994 (guest of Australian
Vice-Chancellors; 3 months; with lectures and seminars at several universities
in Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney, Adelaide);
- Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore 1994-95 (2½ months; with
lectures and seminars at many universities around the country (in Hyderabad, Bhubaneshwar, Pune, Hampi,
Mysore, Depts of Linguistics, Education, English,
Psychology, Law, Architechture, Indian Languages,
Kannada);
- University of Pécs, Hungary 1995, 2 weeks;
- South Africa, guest of the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) of
South Africa, 1997 (16 days, lectures and seminars at several universities: UNISA, Dept of African
Languages, Witwatersrand (Wits), Dept of Afrikaans; Free State, Language
Facilitation Programme, Cape Town, Dept of Education,
and PRAESA, Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South Africa,
Western Cape, Dept of Education, with Vista and Stellenbosch; special symposia,
e.g. State Language Services Workshop on "Marketing linguistic human
rights", HSRC building, Pretoria; discussions in several ministries, human
rights bodies, NGOs etc.
- Cambridge University, CRASH (Center for Research in the Arts, Social
Sciences and Humanities, UK), visiting professor, 2 months 2005.