Decolonisation, Globalisation Language-in-Education Policy and Practice

by Lin, Angel; Martin, Peter

• ISBN13: 9781853598241
• ISBN10: 1853598240
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-07-04
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Summary

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. The volume is suitable for postgraduate students, researchers and educators in a range of areas.

Author Biography

Angel Lin is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Communication at the City University of Hong Kong. She teaches and researches in the areas of critical discourse analysis, urban and school ethnography, bilingual education, feminist cultural studies and postcolonial studies.Peter Martin is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Centre for English Language Teacher Education and Applied Linguistics in the School of Education at the University of Leicester. His research interests include bilingualism, bilingual education, language education, classroom discourse and language shift.

Table of Contents

Author Biodata	vii
Foreword: On the Possibilities of a Post-postcolonial Language Education
Allan Luke	xiv
1 From a Critical Deconstruction Paradigm to a Critical Construction Paradigm: An Introduction to Decolonisation, Globalisation and Language-in-Education Policy and Practice
Angel M.Y. Lin and Peter Martin	1	(19)
2 Nation-building in a Globalised World: Language Choice and Education in India
E. Annamalai	20	(18)
3 Critical, Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Language-in-Education Policy and Practice in Postcolonial Contexts: The Case of Hong Kong
Angel M.Y. Lin	38	(17)
4 Remaking Singapore for the New Age: Official Ideology and the Realities of Practice in Language-in-Education
Rani Rubdy	55	(19)
5 'Safe' Language Practices in Two Rural Schools in Malaysia: Tensions between Policy and Practice
Peter Martin	74	(24)
6 The Four Language Stages in the History of Iran
Abdolmehdi Riazi	98	(17)
7 Higher Education Language Policy and the Challenge of Linguistic Imperialism: A Turkish Case Study
Timothy Reagan and Sandra Schreffler	115	(16)
8 Language Classroom Practices in Kenya
Grace W. Bunyi	131	(22)
9 Language and the Struggle to Learn: The Intersection of Classroom Realities, Language Policy, and Neocolonial and Globalisation Discourses in South African Schools
Margie Probyn	153	(20)
10 Language-in-Education Policies and Practices in Africa with a Special Focus on Tanzania and South Africa - Insights from Research in Progress
Birgit Brock-Utne	173	(21)
11 Accommodating Tensions in Language-in-Education Policies: An Afterword
A. Suresh Canagarajah	194	(8)
Index	202