Language, Minority Education and Gender

by Corson, David

• ISBN13: 9781853592096
• ISBN10: 1853592099
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-09-29
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Table of Contents

Foreword
Language Policy and Power	p. 1
Power and Language	p. 1
Language, Education, and Power	p. 5
Language, Power, and Emancipation	p. 20
Language Policy and Social Justice	p. 27
Social Justice	p. 27
Individualist Accounts	p. 28
A Collectivist Account: Social Justice as 'Consensus in Discourse'	p. 34
Language, Social Justice and Sociocultural Group	p. 39
Language Policy, Education and Social Justice	p. 43
Language Policy and Minority Culture	p. 48
Identity, Intercultural Contacts, and Majority Culture Schooling	p. 48
Minority Culture Values and Discourse Norms in Majority Culture Classrooms	p. 51
Key Situations and School Interaction	p. 60
The Effect of Classroom Context and Teacher Practices	p. 66
Changes in Educational Practice	p. 68
Bilingual Education, Social Justice and Power	p. 71
The General Social Justice Issue in Bilingual Education	p. 72
Classifying Minority Language Policies in Education	p. 74
Specific Social Justice Issues in Bilingual Education	p. 80
The Curriculum Evidence	p. 83
Policy Problems in Assessing Bilingual Children	p. 93
Local Decision Making and Social Justice	p. 97
Minority Social Groups: Non-Standard Varieties and Styles	p. 101
Standard and Non-Standard Varieties	p. 101
Non-Standard Varieties	p. 107
Pragmatic Matters: Accommodating Difference	p. 112
Language Matters Beyond Language	p. 122
Gender and Language Policy in Education	p. 124
The Discourse of Women and Men	p. 127
The Discourse of Girls and Boys	p. 135
Language and Gender Injustice in Schools	p. 139
Policy Action	p. 148
School Action	p. 153
Outside the School	p. 153
I. Social Justice through Communicative Action in Schools	p. 154
II. Social Justice through School Language Policies	p. 172
III. Social Justice and Empowerment through Critical Language Awareness	p. 190
Conclusion	p. 211
References	p. 213
Index	p. 231
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