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Record Nr.

UNINA9910155127703321

Autore

Davis Kathryn Anne

Titolo

Engaged language policy and practices / / Kathryn A. Davis, Prem Phyak

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-317-44248-2

1-315-69528-6

1-317-44249-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (147 pages)

Disciplina

306.44/9

306.449

Soggetti

Language policy - Political aspects

Language planning - Political aspects

Language and languages - Political aspects

Intercultural communication

Language and culture

Sociolinguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Language policies and ideological analyses -- Engaged ethnography as transformative -- Language policy processes -- Planning resistance and discovering alternatives -- Developing relevant and engaging language policies and practices -- Afterword: Language policy rights and resources.

Sommario/riassunto

Engaged Language Policy and Practices re-envisions language policy and planning as an engaged approach, drawing on and portraying theoretical and educational equity perspectives. It calls for the right to language policy-making in which all concerned--communities, parents, students, educators, and advocates--collectively imagine new strategies for resisting global neoliberal marginalization of home languages and cultural identities. This book subsequently emphasizes the means by which engaged dialectic processes can inform and clarify language policy-making decisions that promote equity. In other words, rather than descriptions of outcomes, the authors emphasize the need



to detail the means by which local/regional actors resist and transform inequitable policies. These descriptions of processes thereby provide all actors with ideological, pedagogical, and equity policy tools that can inform situated school and community policy-making.  This book depicts ways in which engaged language policy embodies the intersection of critical inquiry, participant involvement, and ongoing engaged language planning processes. It further offers an alternative to the traditional top-down approach to language education policy-making. Engaged Language Policy and Practices is essential reading for scholars, teachers, students, communities, and others concerned with worldwide language and identity equity.