Overview
- Winner of the BAAL Book Prize 2023
- Offers new insights into how language ideology plays a key role in the (re)production of social inequalities
- Analyses a range of policy initiatives across primary and secondary education
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book traces raciolinguistic ideologies in England’s schools, focusing on post- 2010 policy reforms which frame the language practices of low-income, racialised speakers as limited and deficient. Across interviews, policy mechanisms and classroom observations, the author shows how raciolinguistic ideologies are rooted in British colonial logics which continue to shape contemporary education policy. He shows how these policies require marginalised speakers to modify their speech patterns in line with normative standards of whiteness under new guises of social justice and research robustness. Finally, new visions for language education and linguistic justice are offered, demonstrating how teachers can see themselves as language activists to identify, resist and reject faults in a hostile and oppressive policy architecture. This book draws on fields including critical language policy, educational sociolinguistics, genealogy, raciolinguistics and critical language awareness.
Reviews
—Remi Joseph-Salisbury, University of Manchester, UK
“This book shows how the education system constructs the language of racialized and working-class subjects as “deficient”, and how that contributes to the maintenance of ideologies and power structures which can be traced back to the colonial era. Simultaneously fascinating and disturbing, it should be read by any linguist, teacher or policymaker with an interest in current debates on education, (in)equality and social justice.”
—Deborah Cameron, University of Oxford, UK
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Ian Cushing is Senior Lecturer in English and Education at Edge Hill University, UK. His work examines the ways in which language ideologies get transformed into policies and pedagogies, and how these work against marginalised groups. His work has appeared in journals such as Language in Society, Language Policy, British Educational Research Journal and Critical Inquiry in Language Studies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Standards, Stigma, Surveillance
Book Subtitle: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and England’s Schools
Authors: Ian Cushing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17891-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-17890-0Published: 13 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-17893-1Published: 14 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-17891-7Published: 12 November 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 256
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations
Topics: Language Policy and Planning, Sociolinguistics, Education Policy, Social Policy, Politics of the Welfare State, Social Work and Community Development