TOVE Anita SKUTNABB-KANGAS, dr.phil.

Curriculum vitae (some extracts only/otteita /bitar)

 (pŠivitetty /uppdaterad/ updated/ aktualigita: syyskuu/ september/ September/septembro 2018)

 

 

BORN in Helsinki, Finland, 6 July 1940

NATIONALITY Finnish and Swedish

MOTHER TONGUES Finnish and Swedish

Other languages known: English, German, Danish, Norwegian, a bit of some others

PLACE OF PERMANENT RESIDENCE Sweden

 

Formal EDUCATION

- 1959 Graduated from Vaasan Tyttšlyseo (Vaasa High School for Girls)

- 1962 BA, University of Helsinki (Nordic languages, Education, Psychology, Literature, Philosophy)

- 1965 MA, University of Helsinki (majoring in both Nordic languages and Education)

- 1966-67 Teacher Training College, pedagogical teacher training, Helsinki

- 1975 Official highest level Interpreter and Translator Examination, Helsinki, from both Finnish to Swedish and Swedish to Finnish

- 1976 First PhD (Licentiate of Philosophy), University of Helsinki (thesis on Bilingualism and school achievement, 368 pages)

- 1987 Second PhD (Advanced Doctorate, dr.phil.), Roskilde University, Denmark.

 

EMPLOYMENT

Retired

but still, since 1993: bo Akademi University, Vasa, Finland, part-time reader/Associate Professor (docent) in Education, with Speciality in Minority Education and Linguistic Human Rights.

 

Earlier

- 1964-66 Espoon Ammattikoulu, Finland, (Espoo Vocational School), teacher of Swedish language arts, and Social Science (for Swedish-speaking pupils in a bilingual school).

- 1967-68 Harvard University, USA, Dept of Nordic Languages (research assistant for prof. Einar Haugen).

- 1968-69 Rudolf Steiner School, Helsinki, Finland, teacher of Swedish as L2 and German (for Finnish-speaking pupils).

- 1969-70 Comprehensive schools, Helsinki, Finland, teacher of Swedish as L2 in observational classes (special education).

- 1970-76 University of Helsinki, Dept. of Nordic Languages, Finland, assistant, lecturer, assistant professor.

- 1970-71 (5 months) Finnish Radio, School Radio Languages Section, programme coordinator.

- 1978-1980 Finnish Academy (coordinating central research body), project research.

- 1980-81 Danish Social Sciences Research Council, researcher

- 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

- 1987 Swedish Humanities Reserch Council, research project Migrant Women as Crisis Solvers (with dr. Aleksandra lund)

- 1990-93 Copenhagen University, Denmark, Minority Studies, (part-time) Assoc. Professor (ekstern lektor).

- 1995-2000 Roskilde University, Denmark, Associate Professor; part-time reader; guest researcher 1979-2007. Retired.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Boards, Advisory Committees, Scientific Associations, etc:

At present

á         Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura (Finnish Literature Society), member, 1989-; corresponding member 2010-

á         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

á         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

á         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-

á         National Multilingual Education Resource Consortium, Jawaharlar Nehru University, Delhi, India (http://www.nmrc-jnu.org/), International Advisor (from the beginning 2009-),

á         International LINGUAPAX Advisory Board, Barcelona (from 2017). http://www.linguapax.org/english

á         Peace in Kurdistan. Campaign for a political solution of the Kurdish Question, London , Patron, since 2016- 

á         Centre for Educators of Bilingual and Multilingual Learners (BMLs) www.educatorsofbmls.com  Patron since 2018-

 

Earlier

áAFinLA (Finnish Association for Applied Linguistics), Secretary from its start 1970-1972, Board Member 1970-72, 1975-76.

áNordic Summer University, leader of several groups 1970-1973, member of the Finnish  Board 1970-73, member of the Nordic Board 1971-73.

áNorden 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.

áNordic Association of Immigrant and Minority Researchers, Board Member from the start (to end) 1981-1986.

áThe National Union of Finnish Associations in Sweden, Board member of the Research  Policy Committee from the start (to end), 1983-1991.

áElverum Namibia Association (Norway), member of the Educational Language Planning for Namibia-group 1982-1988.

áWorld University Service, Denmark, member of the Southern Africa Educational group 1982-1990.

áADLA (Danish Association for Applied Linguistics), Board member 1984-86.

áInstitut fŸr Migrations- und Rassismusforschung (Hamburg, Germany), Board member  of the Wissenschaftliche Beirat from the start, 1987 to the end 1993.

áAILA (International Association for Applied Linguistics), President of the Scientific  Commission of Language and Education in Multilingual Settings (together with prof. Bernard Spolsky), 1984-1993.

áISA (International Sociological Association), Research Committee on Ethnic, Race and Minority Relations, Vice-President 1986-90, Board member, 1986-1993.

áInternational Network of Researchers on Linguistic Human Rights, joint coordinator (with Robert Phillipson) from start to end 1986-1994.

áCRITICS (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-to the end.

áIASR (International Association for the Study of Racism), Board member from start 1991-2008; Advisory Board member 2009-to the end

áDKKM (Den Danske KomitŽ for Kurdernes Menneskerettigheder) (=The Danish Committee for Human Rights for the Kurds), Board member from the start, 1991-1998; Advisory Board member (to the end) 1998-2000.

áKurd-lal (Kurdish Research Network), Coordinator for linguistic human rights, from the start 1995-2000.

áCRITICS International Foundation (CRITICS = Critical Research Into Text/Talk, Information and Communication in Society), Board member, from the start, 1994 to the end 1999.

áECMI (European Centre for Minority Issues), Flensburg, Germany, Advisory Council member, 1999-2002.

áOSCE 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.

áUniversity of California Educational Research Center, Fresno, Advisory Committee, Founding member (by invitation), from the start, until the center ceased to exist, 1994-1998.

áLanguage Policy Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, International Advisory Committee Member (by invitation), from the start, 1995- to the end.

áAcadŽmie Internationale de Droit Linguistique / International Academy of Language Law (since 1992), Member (by invitation).

áCenter for Konfliktl¿sning (Centre for Conflict Resolution), Copenhagen, Denmark, Member of Akademiet (Advisory Board) by invitation, from the start, 1994-2000.

áInternational Center for Writing and Translation, University of California Irvine, Member of Executive Board (2006-until the Center finished). http://www.humanities.uci.edu/icwt/

áCensor at Copenhagen University, Faculty of Arts, 2002-2010.

 

Book 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:

á         Discourse and Society, Advisory Board member from the start, 1989-1999; Honorary Advisory Board 1999-

á         Language Problems and Language Planning, member of the Editorial Board, 1997-.

á         Ibero-American Journal on Critical Discourse Analysis, member of the Advisory Board, from the start, 1998-.

á         Language Policy, member of the Editorial Board, from the start, 2001-

á         Critical Inquiry in Language Studies: An International Journal, member of the Editorial Board, from the start, 2003-

á         The International Journal of Multilingualism, member of the Editorial Board, from the start, 2003-

á         Porta Linguarum, member of the Scientific Committee of the Editorial Board, from the start 2003-

á         AlterNative journal, member of the International Advisory Board, from the start 2005-2011

á         Journal of Multilingual Education, member of the Editorial Board, from the start,  2010-

á         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-

á         Language Issues, member of Advisory Board since 20xx-

á         Kurdish Studies Journal, member of the Editorial Advisory Board, from the start 2013-

á         Kovara Akadem”k a Xebatn Kurd” / Academic Journal of Kurdish Studies, member of the Board of referees, 2013-

á         Bilingual Research Journal, member of the Editorial board, 2013-

á         Sustainable Multilingualism, member of the Board, 2017-

 

 

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.

Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, member of the Editorial Board, from the start, 2001-2013

 

 

Referee for journals:

 

á         Discourse and Society

á         Language Problems and Language Planning

á         Ibero-American Journal on Critical Discourse Analysis

á         Language Policy

á         Journal of Language, Identity, and Education

á         Critical Inquiry in Language Studies: An International Journal

á         The International Journal of Multilingualism

á         Porta Linguarum

á         AlterNative journal

á         Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

á         International Journal of Applied Linguistics

á         Asian and Pacific Migration Journal

á         Language and Education

á         Language Sciences

á         International Review of Education (UNESCO Institute for Education)

á         Journal of Human Rights

á         Journal of Sociolinguistics

á         Ethnicities

á         International Journal of Educational Development

á         Patterns of Prejudice: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/0031322X.asp

á         Psychological Studies

á         Sign Language Studies

á         Psychological Studies

á         Nordic Journal for Human Rights

á         Africa Spectrum

á         AGON

á         Sky Journal of Educational Research

á         êkala, Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura (Universidad de Antioquia. Escuela de Idiomas)

á         Social Inclusion

á         International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism

 

Referee of research proposals

- European Science Foundation,

- Norwegian Research Council,

- Austrian Science Fund.

 

Recent projects

á         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-

á         Project Multilingual Education Programme for all non-Nepali Speaking Students of Primary Schools of NepalÓ, 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 (but I have selected many of the encyclopedia and handbook articles that I have authored, separately here – the latest are still missing):

 

Encyclopedia articles:

1. Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove & Phillipson, Robert (1994). Linguicide. In The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Pergamon Press & Aberdeen University Press, 2211-2212.

2. Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove & Phillipson, Robert (1994). Linguistic Imperialism. In The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Pergamon Press & Aberdeen University Press, 2223-2226.

3. Phillipson, Robert & Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove (1994). Discrimination and Minority Languages. In The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Pergamon Press & Aberdeen University Press, 993-995.

4. Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove (1998). Human rights and language policy in education. In Wodak, Ruth & Corson, David (eds). The Encyclopedia of Language and Education. Volume Language Policy and Political Issues in Education. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 55-65.

5. Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove (1998). Bilingual Education for Finnish Minority Students in Sweden. In Cummins, Jim & Corson, David (eds). The Encyclopedia of Language and Education. Volume Bilingual Education. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 217-227.

6. Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove & Phillipson, Robert (1998). Linguicide. In Mey, Jacob L. (ed.). Concise Encyclopedia of Pragmatics. Oxford, UK: Pergamon Press, for Elsevier Science (an updated version of the same entry in Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Elsevier), 506-507.

7. Phillipson, Robert & Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove (1998). Discrimination and Minority Languages. In Mey, Jacob L. (ed.). Concise Encyclopedia of Pragmatics. Oxford, UK: Pergamon Press, for Elsevier Science. (an updated version of the same entry in Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Elsevier), 263-266.

8. Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove & Phillipson, Robert (1998). Linguistic Imperialism. In Mey, Jacob L. (ed.). Concise Encyclopedia of Pragmatics. Oxford, UK: Pergamon Press, for Elsevier Science. (an updated version of the same entry in Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Elsevier), 509-512.

9. Phillipson, Robert & Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove (1999). Linguicide. In Spolsky, Bernard (ed.). Concise Encyclopedia of Educational Linguistics. Oxford, UK: Pergamon Press, for Elsevier Science (a reprint of the updated version of the same entry, first in Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Elsevier; then in Mey, Jacob L. (ed.). Concise Encyclopedia of Pragmatics. Oxford, UK: Pergamon Press, for Elsevier Science).

10. Phillipson, Robert & Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove (1999). Minority Language Rights. In Spolsky, Bernard (ed.). Concise Encyclopedia of Educational Linguistics. Oxford, UK: Pergamon Press, for Elsevier Science (a reprint of the updated version of the entry 'Discrimination and Minority Languages', first in Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Elsevier, then in Mey, Jacob L. (ed.). Concise Encyclopedia of Pragmatics. Oxford, UK: Pergamon Press, for Elsevier Science).

11. Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove & Phillipson, Robert (2001). Linguicide. In Mesthrie, Rajend (ed.). Concise Encyclopedia of Sociolinguistics. Oxford: Elsevier Science, 567-570.

12. Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove & Phillipson, Robert (2001). Discrimination and Minority Languages. In Mesthrie, Rajend (ed.). Concise Encyclopedia of Sociolinguistics. Oxford: Elsevier Science, 545-550.

13. Phillipson, Robert & Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove (2001). Linguistic Imperialism. In Mesthrie, Rajend (ed.). Concise Encyclopedia of Sociolinguistics. Oxford: Elsevier Science, 570-574.

14. Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove (2005). Linguistic Genocide. In Shelton, Dinah (ed.). Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, 3 vols. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 653-654.  DOI: 10.13140/2.1.2603.0088.

15. Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove (2006). Linguistic Rights. In Encyclopedia of  Language and Linguistics, 2nd Ed., Ed. by Keith Brown. Oxford: Elsevier, Vol. 7, ed. Jacob Mey, entry nr. 407, 212-215). www.elsevier.com/locate/ell2

16. Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove and Phillipson, Robert (2008). A Human Rights Perspective on Language Ecology. In Volume 9. Ecology of Language, eds. Angela Creese, Peter Martin and Nancy H. Hornberger. Encyclopedia of Language and Education, 2nd edition. New York: Springer, 3-14.

17. Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove (2007). Human Rights and Language Policy in Education. In Volume 1. Language Policy and Political Issues in Education, eds. Stephen May and Nancy Hornberger. Encyclopedia of Language and Education, 2nd edition. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 107-119.

18. Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove & McCarty, Teresa (2007). Clarification, ideological/epistemological underpinnings and implications of some concepts in bilingual education. In Volume 5, Bilingual Education, eds Jim Cummins and Nancy Hornberger. Encyclopedia of Language and Education, 2nd edition. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 3-17.

19. Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove (2007). Language Rights and Bilingual Education. In Volume 5, Bilingual Education, eds Jim Cummins and Nancy Hornberger. Encyclopedia of Language and Education, 2nd edition. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 117-131.

20. Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove (2013). Mother tongue medium education. In The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, ed. Carol A. Chapelle; part Bilingual Education, Area Editors Jasone Cenoz and Durk Gorter. Malden, MA: Blackwell. DOI: 10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal0776.

21. Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove (2013). Linguistic Human Rights. In The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, ed. Carol A. Chapelle; part Forensic Linguistics, Area Editor Krzysztof Kredens. Malden, MA: Blackwell, DOI: 10.1002/9781405198431.wbea0717.

22. Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove (2013). Role of Linguistic Human Rights in Language Policy and Planning. In The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, ed. Carol A. Chapelle; part Language Policy and Planning, Area Editor Joe Lo Bianco. Malden, MA: Blackwell. DOI: 10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal1026.

23. Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove (2013). EntryÓ Jim Cummins.Ó The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, ed. Carol A. Chapelle. Malden, MA: Blackwell. DOI: 10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal0306.

24. Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove (2013). Entry Ó Robert PhillipsonÓ. The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, General Editor Carol A. Chapelle, area editor Joseph Lo Bianco.  Malden, MA: Blackwell. DOI: 10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal1073.

25. Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove (2014). Linguistic Diversity. In Philips, Denis (ed.). Encyclopedia of Educational Theory and Philosophy. Volume 2. London: Sage, 484-486. Pub. date: 2014 | Online Pub. Date: September 26, 2014. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781483346229 | Print ISBN: 9781452230894 | Online ISBN:9781483346229.

26. Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove (2015). Linguicism. The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Malden, MA: Blackwell. Published Online: 19 JUN 2015 DOI: 10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal1460.

27. Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove (2016) Linguicism. In TheDeaf  Studies Encyclopedia, Volume 2. Eds Genie Gertz and Patrick Boudreault. Sage., 582-586.  https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/the-sage-deaf-studies-encyclopedia/book239776

 28. Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove (2016). Linguistic Genocide. In The Deaf Studies Encyclopedia, Volume 2. Eds Genie Gertz and Patrick Boudreault. Sage, 594-599.  https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/the-sage-deaf-studies-encyclopedia/book239776.

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Handbook articles:

1. Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove & Phillipson, Robert (1996). Linguicide and Linguicism. Kontaktlinguistik. Contact Linguistics. Linguistique de contact. Ein Internationales Handbuch zeitgenšssiger Forschung. An International Handbook of Contemporary Research. Manuel international des recherches contemporaines. Volume 1. Goebl, Hans, Nelde, Peter H., Starý, Zden_k & Wšlck, Wolfgang (eds.), Berlin & New York: Walter de Gruyter, 667-675.

2. Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove (1999). Education of Minorities. In Fishman, Joshua A. (ed.). Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 42-59.

3. Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove & Phillipson, Robert (2001). Language ecology. In Handbook of Pragmatics, eds. Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola …stman, Jan Blommaert & Chris Bulcaen. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1-18. http://www.xn--sprkfrsvaret-vcb4v.se/sf/fileadmin/PDF/Language_Ecology.pdf

4. Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove (2006). Linguistic Human Rights/Sprachliche Menschenrechte. Ammon, Ulrich, Dittmar, Norbert, Mattheier, Klaus J. & Trudgill, Peter (eds.). Sociolinguistics/Soziolinguistik. An International Handbook of the Science of Language and Society/Ein Internationales Handbuch zur Wissenschaft von Sprache und Gesellschaft. Volume 3. Berlin & New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2575-2584.

5.  Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove (2007). Language Planning and Language Rights. Volume 9. Diversity and Change, eds Marlis Hellinger & Anne Pauwels, Handbooks of Language and Communication. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 365-397.

6. Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove (2007). Language Rights. In Jan-Ola …stman & Jef Verschueren, in collaboration with Eline Versluys (eds). Handbook of Pragmatics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

7. Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove  & Phillipson, Robert (2007). Language Ecology. (Revision). In Jan-Ola …stman & Jef Verschueren, in collaboration with Eline Versluys (eds). Handbook of Pragmatics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

8. McCarty, Teresa L., Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove, and Magga, Ole-Henrik (2007). Education for Speakers of  Endangered Languages. In Spolsky, Bernard & Hult, Francis (eds). The Handbook of Educational Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell, 297-312. Paperback February 2010: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1444331043.html

9. Taylor, Shelley & Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove (2009). The educational language rights of Kurdish children in Turkey, Denmark and Kurdistan (Iraq). In Ayers, William, Quinn, Teresa & Stovall, David (eds). Handbook for Social Justice in Education. Section Three, Race and Ethnicity and Seeking Social Justice in Education, ed. Annette Henry, 171-190.

10. Phillipson, Robert & Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove (2009). The politics and policies of language and language teaching. In Long, Michael H. and Catherine J. Doughty (eds). The Handbook of Language Teaching. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 26-41.

11. Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove (2010). Education of Indigenous and Minority Children. In Fishman, Joshua A. & Garc’a, Ofelia (eds) Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity. Disciplinary and Regional Perspectives. Volume 1. 2nd revised edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 186-204.

12. Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove & Phillipson, Robert (2010). The politics of language in globalisation: maintenance, marginalization, or murder. In Coupland, Nicolas (ed.). Handbook on Language and Globalization. Oxford: Blackwell, 77-100. http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1405175818,descCd-tableOfContents.html

13. Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove (2010). Language rights. In Jaspers, JŸrgen, …stman, Jan-Ola & Verschueren, Jef (eds). Society and Language Use. Volume 7, Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 212-240.

14. . Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove (2011). Language ecology. Pragmatics in Practice, ed. Jan-Ola …stman. Series  Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 177-198. http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_seriesview.cgi?series=HoPH . [A revised version of Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove  & Phillipson, Robert (2007).  Language Ecology. (Revision of an 1999 article). In Jan-Ola …stman & Jef Verschueren, in collaboration with Eline Versluys (eds). Handbook of Pragmatics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins].

15. Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove (2012). Linguistic Human Rights. In Solan, Larry and Tiersma, Peter (eds). Oxford Handbook on Language and Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 235-247. http://www.languageandlaw.org/Oxford%20Handbook.html. Paperback version 2016.

16. Phillipson, Robert and Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove (2013). Linguistic imperialism and endangered languages. In The Handbook of Bilingualism and Multilingualism, second edition, ed. Tej K. Bhatia and William C. Ritchie. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 495-516. ISBN: 978-1-4443-3490-6

17. Phillipson, Robert and Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove (2013/2014). English, Language Dominance, and Ecolinguistic Diversity Maintenance. In Filppula, Markku, Klemola, Juhani and Sharma, Devyani (eds). The Oxford Handbook of World Englishes. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Online edition December 2013:  DOI: 10.1093/oxfodhb(9780199777716.013.005. http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199777716.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199777716-e-005?rskey=nqPeQw&result=1

18. Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove (2015). Language Rights. In Wright, Wayne E., Boun, Sovicheth, and Garc’a, Ofelia (eds). Handbook of Bilingual and Multilingual Education. Wiley-Blackwell, 185-202.

 

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 S‡mi, 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, fil.dr.).

University of Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain (Miguel Moreira Barbeito, PhD)

Western University, London, Ontario, Canada (Dawn Fyn, PhD)

University of Helsinki, Department of Finnish, Finno-Ugrian and Scandinavian Studies (Annika Pasanen, PhD)

Lapin yliopisto (University of Lapland) Rovaniemi, Finland (Rauni €ŠrelŠ, PhD)

UNISA, College of Education, South Africa (Kenalemang Olga Kgoroeadira, PhD)

 

Professorial Committees or Referee: University of Troms¿, Norway; University of Toronto, Canada; University of Oslo, Norway; Colombia University, Teachers College, USA; Northern Arizona University, USA.

 

PhDs (officially) 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).

Recipient of CABE (California Association for Bilingual Education) Vision Award, 2013 (California, USA)

 

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 – ÒTurkish KurdistanÓ-  and South Kurdistan – ÒIraqi KurdistanÓ), Latvia, Lithuania, 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 PŽcs, 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.

- South Africa, Distinguished Visiting Scholar of ASSAf (Academy of Science of South Africa), 2 weeks, with lectures at 8 universities, October 2012.