Segregation in Language Education

1. Chapter 1: The Prologue.- Part I -  2. Chapter 2: Willkommen in Südtirol.- 3. Chapter 3: From Fascist Occupation to the 21^st Century.- 4. Chapter 4: Heimat, disagio, and South Tyrolean Identity.- Part II - 5. Chapter 5: Deconstructing the German- and Italian-speaking Schooling Systems. 6. Chapter 6: Language Learning ‘Blocks’: Its Victims and its Conquerors.- 7. Chapter 7: Varied Responses to Bilingual Education.- 8. Chapter 8: Final Thoughts.

Ann Wand is a European anthropologist and study abroad specialist, specialising in South Tyrolean education. She is also the Founder and Director of The Oxford Method, an online British university preparatory programme for international students interested in attending Britain’s top universities. 

This book sets out to try to understand why segregated schooling still exists, especially in northern Italy in South Tyrol where they practice ‘separate but equal’ education. Supported by the UN, the Austrian and Italian governments, the province is considered a ‘peace model’ due to its consociational approach to dealing with the region’s Nazi and Fascist past, which has led to a ‘negative peace’. The autonomy statutes, which derived from this ‘peace’, resulted in an education system that is linguistically segregated for the purposes of protecting South Tyrol’s ethnolinguistic minorities.
Ann Wand is the Founder and Director of The Oxford Method, an online British university preparatory programme for international students interested in attending Britain’s top universities. She is also the Programme Manager for Customised Faculty led programmes in Oxford, England and Florence, Italy at the American Institute for Foreign Study (AIFS).

Provides as an anthropological twist to sociolinguistic debates on language learning and language identity Questions the intentions of the education clause and its long-term consequences for the South Tyrolean community Looks at 'mixed' marriages, where members from different communities produce bilingual, and trilingual, children