ISBN:
9780415824828
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (590 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Research in Education
Series Statement:
Routledge Research in Education Ser. v.112
Parallel Title:
Print version Affirming Language Diversity in Schools and Society : Beyond Linguistic Apartheid
DDC:
370.117/5
Keywords:
United States - Foreign relations - 20th century
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Language is perhaps the most common issue that surfaces in debates over school reform, and plays a vital role in virtually everything we are involved. This edited volume will explore linguistic apartheid, or the disappearance of certain languages through cultural genocide by dominant European colonizers and American neoconservative groups. These groups have historically imposed hegemonic languages, such as English and French, on colonized people at the expense of the native languages of the latter. The book will trace this form of apartheid from the colonial era to the English-only movement in
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: Linguistic Apartheid No Más-Honoring All Languages; Examining Linguistic Apartheid through Anticolonial and Anti-Imperialist Lenses; The English Only Movement: A Neocolonial form of Linguistic Domination; Resisting Linguistic Apartheid: Toward A Just and Multilingual Society; Book Organization; Overview of Chapters; Part I; Part II; Part III; Conclusion; References; Part I: Linguistic Apartheid in the United States: From the Colonial to the Neocolonial Era
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2. 21st Century Linguistic Apartheid: English Language Learners in Arizona Public SchoolsIntroduction; Anti-Immigrant Ideologies and the English Language Development Block; The Historical Origins of the English Language Development Block; Flores v. Arizona; Consent Order; Legislative Reaction; A Reconstituted State Policy Focus for ELLS: Revised Curriculum and Instruction; Higher Court Involvement and the Equal Educational Opportunity Act; Supreme Court Intervention; Justifying Segregation; The Postcolonial Nature of the ELD Blocks; Educational Deprivation of English Learners in the ELD Block
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NotesReferences; 3. Cultural Hegemony, Language, and the Politics of Forgetting: Interrogating Restrictive Language Policies; Linguistic Genocide; Restrictive Language Policies; Language and Material Interests; Language, Ideology, and Schoooling; Beyond the Culture of Forgetting; Notes; References; 4. Reclaiming the Taino Legacy: Issues of Language, Culture, and Identity; Taino Legacy; Tainos the "Good People" and the "Brave Warriors"; Issues of Language, Culture, and Transformative Pedagogy-The Intrinsic Maze of Language and Self; References
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5. Overcoming Linguistic Apartheid: Contesting the Raj's Divide and Rule PoliciesThe Postcolonial Framework; Instances of the English-Vernacular Divide: Vernacular-Medium Pedagogic Practices; Divergent Standards for English- and Vernacular-Medium Classrooms; Bridging English-Vernacular Schisms: Extracurricular Activities Emphasizing Civic Responsibility in Gujarati; Bridging the Divide: Institutional Efforts at Opening Doors for Gujarati Dalit Students; Pulling Back, Looking Ahead: Implications for LPP; References; Part II: Beyond Draconian Language Policies: Affirming Language Diversity
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6. Human Right, States' Rights, and Linguistic ApartheidIntroduction; The Arizonification of America; SB 1070-HB 56; Examining the Linguistic and Educational Effects of Arizona's SB 1070 and HB 2162; Arizona; SB 1070; HB 2162; Alabama; HB 56; Public Education; Employment; Forms of Opposition to HB 56; Conclusion; Revolutionary Critical Praxis; References; 7. Bite Your Tongue: How the English Only Movement Has Silenced Voices of Dissent; Notes; References; 8. Colonial Education in the Southwest: White Supremacy, Cultural and Linguistic Subtraction, and the Struggle for Raza Studies
Description / Table of Contents:
Situating White Supremacy
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