Language Policies in Education (eBook, ePUB)

Critical Issues
Redaktion: Tollefson, James W.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This new edition of takes a fresh look at enduring questions at the heart of fundamental debates about the role of schools in society, the links between education and employment, and conflicts between linguistic minorities and "mainstream" populations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136697692
• Artikelnr.: 38275519

Autorenporträt

James W. Tollefson is Professor, University of Hong Kong and Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part I: Language Policy in Education
1. Critical Issues in Language Policy in Education
James W. Tollefson
2. Language Policy in a Time of Crisis and Transformation
James W. Tollefson
3. Multiple Actors and Arenas in Evolving Language Policies
Mary McGroarty
Part II: Competing Agendas
4. A Brief History and Assessment of Language Rights in the
United States
Terrence G. Wiley
5. Righting Language Wrongs in a Plurilingual Context: Language
Policy and Practice in Nicaragua's Caribbean Coast Region
Jane Freeland
6. Positioning the Language Policy Arbiter: Governmentality and
Footing in the School District of Philadelphia
David Cassels Johnson
Part III: Indigenous Languages in Postcolonial Education
7. Language and Education in Kenya: Between the Colonial Legacy
and the New Constitutional Order
Alamin Mazrui
8. Language-in-Education Policy and Planning in Africa's
Monolingual Kingdoms of Lesotho and Swaziland
Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu
Part IV: Language and Global Capitalism
9. The Japanisation of English Language Education: Promotion of the
National Language within Foreign Language Policy
Kayoko Hashimoto
10. India's Economic Restructuring with English: Benefits Versus
Costs
E. Annamalai
Part V: Language and Social Conflict
11. Rwanda Switches to English: Conflict, Identity and
Language-in-Education Policy
Beth Lewis Samuelson
12. The Critical Villager Revisited: Continuing Transformations of
Language and Education in Solomon Islands
David Welchman Gegeo and Karen Ann Watson-Gegeo
Part VI: Language Policy and Social Change
13. Language Planning and Cultural Continuance in Native America
Teresa L. McCarty
14. New Functional Domains of Quechua and Aymara: Mass Media and Social
Media
Serafin M. Coronel-Molina
15. Language Policy and Democratic Pluralism
James W. Tollefson
List of Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index