Multilingual Education in South Asia - At the Intersection of Policy and Practice (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Series in Language and Content Integrated Teaching & Plurilingual Education
Release date:	May 2022
First published:	2022
Editors:	Lina Adinolfi • Usree Bhattacharya • Prem Phyak
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	174
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-74604-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Sociolinguistics Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > General Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Regional geography Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Psycholinguistics > Bilingualism & multilingualism Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Area / regional studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > General Books > Social sciences > Education > Schools > Secondary schools > General Promotions
LSN:	0-367-74604-2
Barcode:	9780367746049

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