2nd Edition

Language Policies in Education Critical Issues

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

    328 Pages
    by Routledge

    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 Education takes a fresh look at these 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. Reflecting developments in language policy since the publication of the first edition in 2002, all chapters are original and substantial contributions to the study of language policy and exemplify major theories and research methods in the field. Chapter authors are major scholars in language policy and critical language studies. The case studies, international in scope, present cutting-edge analyses of important language policy debates in countries around the world.

    Preface

    Part I: Language Policy in Education 

    1. Critical Issues in Language Policy in Education
    2. James W. Tollefson

    3. Language Policy in a Time of Crisis and Transformation
    4. James W. Tollefson

    5. Multiple Actors and Arenas in Evolving Language Policies
    6. Mary McGroarty

      Part II: Competing Agendas

    7. A Brief History and Assessment of Language Rights in the
    8. United States

      Terrence G. Wiley

    9. Righting Language Wrongs in a Plurilingual Context: Language
    10. Policy and Practice in Nicaragua’s Caribbean Coast Region

      Jane Freeland

    11. Positioning the Language Policy Arbiter: Governmentality and
    12. Footing in the School District of Philadelphia

      David Cassels Johnson

      Part III: Indigenous Languages in Postcolonial Education

    13. Language and Education in Kenya: Between the Colonial Legacy
    14. and the New Constitutional Order

      Alamin Mazrui

    15. Language-in-Education Policy and Planning in Africa’s
    16. Monolingual Kingdoms of Lesotho and Swaziland

      Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu

      Part IV: Language and Global Capitalism

    17. 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.