Broschiertes Buch

Multilingual Education in South Asia

At the Intersection of Policy and Practice

Herausgeber: Adinolfi, Lina; Phyak, Prem; Bhattacharya, Usree

Beschreibung

This edited volume seeks to capture and elucidate the challenges, approaches and possible solutions associated with language-in-education policies across South Asia. Aimed at academics and practitioners, it offers insights into education policy, in particular their wider implications and applications across rich multilingual settings.

Autor

Lina Adinolfi is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Languages and Applied Linguistics at the Open University, UK whose professional and research specialisms embrace both language learning and language-in-learning. She has extensive experience of designing technology-enhanced language-supportive teacher professional development programmes in India and other low-resource multilingual South Asian contexts. Usree Bhattacharya is Associate Professor in the Language and Literacy Education Department, College of Education at the University of Georgia, Atlanta. Her research is inspired by questions of diversity, equity, and access in multilingual educational contexts. A primary aim of her work is to illuminate the role of discourses, ideologies, and everyday practices in the production and reproduction of hierarchical relations within educational systems. Prem Phyak is Assistant Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research areas include language policy, multilingual education, critical pedagogy and indigenous language education. His papers have appeared in journals such as Language Policy, Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, Language in Society, Multilingua, and International Journal of Sociology of Language.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 301g
• ISBN-13: 9780367746032
• ISBN-10: 0367746034
• Artikelnr.: 69918854