Language, Education and Nation-building

Language, Education and Nation-building
Title Language, Education and Nation-building PDF eBook
Author P. Sercombe
Publisher Springer
Pages 279
Release 2014-09-02
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1137455535

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This volume tracks the complex relationships between language, education and nation-building in Southeast Asia, focusing on how language policies have been used by states and governments as instruments of control, assimilation and empowerment. Leading scholars have contributed chapters each representing one of the countries in the region.

Language and Identity

Language and Identity
Title Language and Identity PDF eBook
Author John Edwards
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 323
Release 2009-09-17
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1139483285

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The language we use forms an important part of our sense of who we are - of our identity. This book outlines the relationship between our identity as members of groups - ethnic, national, religious and gender - and the language varieties important to each group. What is a language? What is a dialect? Are there such things as language 'rights'? Must every national group have its own unique language? How have languages, large and small, been used to spread religious ideas? Why have particular religious and linguistic 'markers' been so central, singly or in combination, to the ways in which we think about ourselves and others? Using a rich variety of examples, the book highlights the linkages among languages, dialects and identities, with special attention given to religious, ethnic and national allegiances.

Managing Diversity in Education

Managing Diversity in Education
Title Managing Diversity in Education PDF eBook
Author David Little
Publisher Multilingual Matters
Pages 294
Release 2013-11-08
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1783090820

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Diversity - social, cultural, linguistic and ethnic - poses a challenge to all educational systems. Some authorities, schools and teachers look upon it as a problem, an obstacle to the achievement of national educational goals, while for others it offers new opportunities. Successive PISA reports have laid bare the relative lack of success in addressing the needs of diverse school populations and helping children develop the competences they need to succeed in society. The book is divided into three parts that deal in turn with policy and its implications, pedagogical practice, and responses to the challenge of diversity that go beyond the language of schooling. This volume features the latest research from eight different countries, and will appeal to anyone involved in the educational integration of immigrant children and adolescents.

Identity Texts

Identity Texts
Title Identity Texts PDF eBook
Author Jim Cummins
Publisher Trentham Books Limited
Pages 0
Release 2011
Genre Education
ISBN 9781858564784

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Jim Cummins is Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Curriculum, Teaching and Learning department at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.

Identity and Language Learning

Identity and Language Learning
Title Identity and Language Learning PDF eBook
Author Bonny Norton
Publisher Multilingual Matters
Pages 352
Release 2013-10-04
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 178309057X

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Identity and Language Learning draws on a longitudinal case study of immigrant women in Canada to develop new ideas about identity, investment, and imagined communities in the field of language learning and teaching. Bonny Norton demonstrates that a poststructuralist conception of identity as multiple, a site of struggle, and subject to change across time and place is highly productive for understanding language learning. Her sociological construct of investment is an important complement to psychological theories of motivation. The implications for language teaching and teacher education are profound. Now including a new, comprehensive Introduction as well as an Afterword by Claire Kramsch, this second edition addresses the following central questions: - Under what conditions do language learners speak, listen, read and write? - How are relations of power implicated in the negotiation of identity? - How can teachers address the investments and imagined identities of learners? The book integrates research, theory, and classroom practice, and is essential reading for students, teachers and researchers in the fields of language learning and teaching, TESOL, applied linguistics and literacy.

Handbook of Heritage, Community, and Native American Languages in the United States

Handbook of Heritage, Community, and Native American Languages in the United States
Title Handbook of Heritage, Community, and Native American Languages in the United States PDF eBook
Author Terrence G. Wiley
Publisher Routledge
Pages 424
Release 2014-01-03
Genre Education
ISBN 1136332499

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Co-published by the Center for Applied Linguistics Timely and comprehensive, this state-of-the-art overview of major issues related to heritage, community, and Native American languages in the United States, based on the work of noted authorities, draws from a variety of perspectives—the speakers; use of the languages in the home, community, and wider society; patterns of acquisition, retention, loss, and revitalization of the languages; and specific education efforts devoted to developing stronger connections with and proficiency in them. Contributions on language use, programs and instruction, and policy focus on issues that are applicable to many heritage language contexts. Offering a foundational perspective for serious students of heritage, community, and Native American languages as they are learned in the classroom, transmitted across generations in families, and used in communities, the volume provides background on the history and current status of many languages in the linguistic mosaic of U.S. society and stresses the importance of drawing on these languages as societal, community, and individual resources, while also noting their strategic importance within the context of globalization.

The State, Schooling and Identity

The State, Schooling and Identity
Title The State, Schooling and Identity PDF eBook
Author Kari Kantasalmi
Publisher Springer
Pages 248
Release 2016-12-22
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9811015155

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This book offers insights into the relationship between nation-state and education by problematizing and analyzing the assumed straightforwardness of the role of education and schooling. Placing the issue in very contemporary contested nation-state structures like Scotland, Catalonia, Ukraine and Belgium. These conflict situations and contested power relations are in a way some of Europe’s internal North-South struggles. In addition, the particular Nordic North-South example of the Saami with their status as indigenous people recognized in international law is viewed in terms of their educational struggle for better consideration of their cultural features in Saami land crossing the Nordic states. The book focuses on the Nordic countries, often viewed as globally exemplary in their educational arrangements, but casts deeper insight into Nordic education and points to problematic schooling issues in Northern Europe. This volume presents somewhat unexpected views on European educational arrangements with regard to the European growing diversity.