Multilingual Education in South Asia: At the Intersection of Policy and Practice (Routledge Series in Language and Content Integrated Teaching & Plurilingual Education)

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Synopsis
Spanning scholarly contributions from India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, this edited volume seeks to capture and elucidate the distinct challenges, approaches and possible solutions associated with interpreting, adapting and applying language-in-education policies in a range of linguistically complex teaching and learning environments across South Asia. Centring on-the-ground perspectives of scholars, practitioners, pupils, parents and the larger community, the volume offers new insights into one of the most complex, populous, and diverse multilingual educational contexts in the world. Language-in-education policies and practices within this setting represent particularly high stakes issues, playing a pivotal role in determining access to literacy, thereby forming a critical pivot in the reproduction of educational inequality. The broad aim of the collection is thus to highlight the pedagogical, practical, ideological and identity-related implications arising from current language-in-education policies in this region, with the aim of illustrating how systemic inequality is intertwined with such policies and their associated interpretations. Aimed at both academics and practitioners - whether researchers and students in the fields of education, linguistics, sociology, anthropology or South Asian studies, on the one hand, or language policy advisors, curriculum developers, teacher educators, teachers, and members of funding bodies, aid providers or NGOs, on the other - it is anticipated that the accounts in this volume will offer their readership opportunities to consider their wider implications and applications across other rich multilingual settings – be these local, regional, national or global.
Copyright:
2022

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
216 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781000566291
Related ISBNs:
9781003158660, 9780367746049, 9780367746032
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
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Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Education, Language Arts, Foreign Language Study, Politics and Government
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Edited by:
Lina Adinolfi
Edited by:
Usree Bhattacharya
Edited by:
Prem Phyak

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