Jürgen Jaspers

Monolingual Policies in Multilingual Schools (eBook, ePUB)

Tensions, Ambivalence, and Thinking Teachers

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Produktbeschreibung

This book shows that teachers at monolingual schools in Brussels approach their multilingual pupils in quite ambivalent ways (severely imposing the school language, but also recognizing pupils' multilingualism). Underlining this ambivalence is important because the scientific literature typically prefers a focus on teachers who either support or suppress their pupils' multilingualism. Much ordinary, inconsistent, teacher behavior thus falls off the radar, while those teachers who appear in the literature are either praised (as critical) or blamed (as ideologically deceived). This book thus explores uncharted territory, it explains teachers' inconsistency as a type of thinking, and it suggests that we can evaluate their behavior in more complex terms than simply good or bad.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197698150
• Artikelnr.: 72267311

Autorenporträt

Jürgen Jaspers is Professor of Dutch linguistics and sociolinguistics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium. He publishes widely on classroom interaction, urban multilingualism, language variation, and language policy and ideology. He is co-editor (with Eva Codó) of Multilingua. Journal of Cross-cultural and Interlanguage Communication, and has edited various special issues and book volumes, including Critical perspectives on linguistic fixity and fluidity (2019, Routledge, with Lian Malai Madsen).

Inhaltsangabe

List of tables
List of figures
Acknowledgements
Transcription conventions
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Heroes, villains, and other teachers
Chapter 3: Ideological contradictions and ambivalence
Chapter 4: Brusseling language, bustling friction
Chapter 5: Imposing, restricting, and alluding to monolingualism
Chapter 6: Mundane multilingualism
Chapter 7: Multilingual openings
Chapter 8: Critical dialogue, autonomy, and alternatives
Chapter 9: Objectivity and values in research
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