ISBN:
1853598240
,
1853598267
,
1853598259
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xix, 204 p)
,
21 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
New perspectives on language and education
Parallel Title:
Print version Decolonisation, Globalisation : Language-in-Education Policy and Practice
DDC:
306.44/9
Keywords:
Language policy
;
Language and education
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
This volume brings together scholars from around the world to juxtapose the voices of classroom participants alongside the voices of ruling elites with the aim of critically linking language policy issues with classroom practice in a range of contexts
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Author Biodata; Foreword: On the Possibilities of a Post-postcolonial Language Education; Chapter 1 From a Critical Deconstruction Paradigm to a Critical Construction Paradigm: An Introduction to Decolonisation, Globalisation and Language-in-Education Policy and Practice; Chapter 2 Nation-building in a Globalised World: Language Choice and Education in India; Chapter 3 Critical, Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Language-in- Education Policy and Practice in Postcolonial Contexts: The Case of Hong Kong
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 4 Remaking Singapore for the New Age: Official Ideology and the Realities of Practice in Language-in- EducationChapter 5 'Safe' Language Practices in Two Rural Schools in Malaysia: Tensions between Policy and Practice1; Chapter 6 The Four Language Stages in the History of Iran; Chapter 7 Higher Education Language Policy and the Challenge of Linguistic Imperialism: A Turkish Case Study; Chapter 8 Language Classroom Practices in Kenya
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 9 Language and the Struggle to Learn: The Intersection of Classroom Realities, Language Policy, and Neocolonial and Globalisation Discourses in South African SchoolsChapter 10 Language-in-Education Policies and Practices in Africa with a Special Focus on Tanzania and South Africa - Insights from Research in Progress; Chapter 11 Accommodating Tensions in Language-in-Education Policies: An Afterword; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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