Language Policies in Education : Critical Issues (Paperback, 2 ed)

Preface

Part I: Language Policy in Education 

1. Critical Issues in Language Policy in Education

James W. Tollefson

2. Language Policy in a Time of Crisis and Transformation

James W. Tollefson

3. Multiple Actors and Arenas in Evolving Language Policies

Mary McGroarty

Part II: Competing Agendas

4. A Brief History and Assessment of Language Rights in the

United States

Terrence G. Wiley

5. Righting Language Wrongs in a Plurilingual Context: Language

Policy and Practice in Nicaragua’s Caribbean Coast Region

Jane Freeland

6. Positioning the Language Policy Arbiter: Governmentality and

Footing in the School District of Philadelphia

David Cassels Johnson

Part III: Indigenous Languages in Postcolonial Education

7. Language and Education in Kenya: Between the Colonial Legacy

and the New Constitutional Order

Alamin Mazrui

8. Language-in-Education Policy and Planning in Africa’s

Monolingual Kingdoms of Lesotho and Swaziland

Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu

Part IV: Language and Global Capitalism

9. The Japanisation of English Language Education: Promotion of the

National Language within Foreign Language Policy

Kayoko Hashimoto

  10. India’s Economic Restructuring with English: Benefits Versus

Costs

E. Annamalai

Part V: Language and Social Conflict

  11. Rwanda Switches to English: Conflict, Identity and Language-in-Education Policy

Beth Lewis Samuelson

  12. The Critical Villager Revisited: Continuing Transformations of

Language and Education in Solomon Islands

David Welchman Gegeo and Karen Ann Watson-Gegeo

Part VI: Language Policy and Social Change

  13. Language Planning and Cultural Continuance in Native America

Teresa L. McCarty

  14. New Functional Domains of Quechua and Aymara: Mass Media and Social Media

Serafin M. Coronel-Molina

  15. Language Policy and Democratic Pluralism

James W. Tollefson

List of Contributors

Author Index

Subject Index