Language Policies in Education

How do language policies in schools create inequalities among learners? How do policies marginalize some students while granting privilege to others? How do language policies in education serve the interests of dominant groups within societies? How can linguistic minorities further their interests through attempts to change language policies in schools? This new edition of Language Policies in Education takes a fresh look at these enduring questions at the heart of fundamental debates about the role of schools in society, the links between education and employment, and conflicts between linguistic minorities and "mainstream" populations. Reflecting developments in language policy since the publication of the first edition in 2002, all chapters are original and substantial contributions to the study of language policy and exemplify major theories and research methods in the field. Chapter authors are major scholars in language policy and critical language studies. The case studies, international in scope, present cutting-edge analyses of important language policy debates in countries around the world.

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