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Language Policies in Education: Critical Issues book cover

2nd Edition

Language Policies in Education Critical Issues

Edited By James W. Tollefson Copyright 2013
328 Pages
by Routledge

328 Pages
by Routledge

328 Pages
by Routledge
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How do language policies in schools create inequalities among learners? How do policies marginalize some students while granting privilege to others? How do language policies in education serve the interests of dominant groups within societies? How can linguistic minorities further their interests through attempts to change language policies in schools? This new edition of Language Policies in... Read more

Preface

Part I: Language Policy in Education 

  1. Critical Issues in Language Policy in Education

    2. James W. Tollefson

  2. Language Policy in a Time of Crisis and Transformation

    3. James W. Tollefson

  3. Multiple Actors and Arenas in Evolving Language Policies

    4. Mary McGroarty

    Part II: Competing Agendas

  4. A Brief History and Assessment of Language Rights in the

    5. United States

    Terrence G. Wiley

  5. Righting Language Wrongs in a Plurilingual Context: Language

    6. Policy and Practice in Nicaragua’s Caribbean Coast Region

    Jane Freeland

  6. Positioning the Language Policy Arbiter: Governmentality and

    7. 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

    8. and the New Constitutional Order

    Alamin Mazrui

  8. Language-in-Education Policy and Planning in Africa’s

    9. 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

Biography

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

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