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Lakshmi Balasubramanian; Ipshita Banerjee – Remedial and Special Education, 2024
Understanding inclusive education challenges in India involves acknowledging the complex linguistic, cultural, religious, and caste-based diversity affecting marginalized groups. Ambiguity surrounds implementing the "inclusion" concept, necessitating critical evaluation and adaptation to align with India's unique dynamics. Despite…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Cultural Context, Indians
Tebogo J. Rakgogo – Transformation in Higher Education, 2024
The core objective of this article is to evaluate the progress made in linguistic development over the past three decades, with a specific focus on the role of language and its philosophical underpinnings in reshaping and decolonising South African higher education landscape. Linguistic imperialism as a conceptual framework alongside the Framework…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Racial Segregation, Social Change, Colonialism
Mazlum, Farhad – Language Policy, 2022
Choosing which additional language to include in national curricula and when to begin teaching it are important educational policy decisions. The current study aims to provide a contextually embedded picture of such policymaking process in the Iranian context. More specifically, the study is intended to explain the agency mechanism of different…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Role, Language Planning
Ashraf, Muhammad Azeem; Turner, David A.; Laar, Rizwan Ahmed – SAGE Open, 2021
This study examines the language practices in educational settings in Pakistan, taking the multilingual groupings in society into account. In Pakistan, each province is linked to the single or multiple identities of its people and the languages spoken by the majority. The national language Urdu is limited to educational settings and its function…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Educational Practices, Educational Policy, Policy Formation
Le, Hang M. – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2021
While there is growing attention to language as a central issue in education for refugees, this policy area still appears to be dominated by an apolitical, technical, and instrumentalist perspective. Through a comparison of language-in-education policies in two refugee camp contexts, Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya and the refugee camps along the…
Descriptors: Refugees, Emergency Shelters, Language of Instruction, Educational Policy
Odrowaz-Coates, Anna – Education as Change, 2020
This article draws on chaos theory to critically analyse the recent higher education reforms that have been taking place in Poland. The argument launched in this article aims to show that the reforms are based primarily on neoliberal foundations and to expose the linguistic dominance of the English language in neoliberal settings. The English…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Neoliberalism, Higher Education
Hult, Francis M. – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2017
The Swedish educational policy for upper secondary English, which took effect in 2011 and adopts a globalised perspective on language, is explored with respect to how skills and awareness related to local, national, and international roles of English are represented in policy documents. A discourse analytic approach to language policy is used to…
Descriptors: Official Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Attitudes
Tupas, Ruanni – Language and Education, 2015
This paper discusses structural and ideological challenges to mother tongue-based multilingual education (MTB-MLE) which has in recent years been gaining ground in many educational contexts around the world. The paper argues, however, that MTB-MLE is set against these challenges - referred to here as inequalities of multilingualism - which prevent…
Descriptors: Native Language, Multilingualism, Native Language Instruction, Sociolinguistics
Kobayashi, Yoko – Applied Linguistics, 2011
As China is increasingly occupying the world's attention, its explosively expanding economical and political clout has also been felt in the applied linguistics domain, with the discussion on China's/Chinese language issues growing by leaps and bounds (e.g. China's English education policies, Chinese language classes in the West). Amid the world's…
Descriptors: Language Role, Applied Linguistics, Ideology, Foreign Countries
Trudell, Barbara – Language and Education, 2010
The role of African languages in formal and nonformal learning is the subject of increasing local, national and international interests. Cognitive and pedagogical reasons abound for using the language best understood by the learner. However, many nonpedagogical factors related to politics, economics, language attitudes and colonial history are…
Descriptors: African Languages, Language Attitudes, Language of Instruction, Language Role
Langthaler, Margarita; Witjes, Nina; Slezak, Gabriele – Multicultural Education & Technology Journal, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the discussion about the developmental value of knowledge by reflecting on the "knowledge for development" (K4D) paradigm. In particular, it draws attention to the interaction between linguistic and communicative processes and the areas of power, knowledge and education. This is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economic Development, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis
Samuelson, Beth Lewis; Freedman, Sarah Warshauer – Language Policy, 2010
The evolution of Rwanda's language policies since 1996 has played and continues to play a critical role in social reconstruction following war and genocide. Rwanda's new English language policy aims to drop French and install English as the only language of instruction. The policy-makers frame the change as a major factor in the success of social…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Language Planning, Official Languages, Language of Instruction
Chick, J. Keith – Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 1992
The widespread perception amongst advocates for learners from oppressed communities that linguistics are incapable of addressing such issues as the unequal distribution of power in South Africa, or of making their discipline part of the process of democratic transformation is traced to the paucity of studies concerned with the role of language in…
Descriptors: Apartheid, Educational Policy, Ethnography, Foreign Countries
Tremblay, Daniel – 1988
The study of language conflict in Ontario is part of a larger project that is analyzing the links between intercultural relations and legal mechanisms within this and three other Canadian provinces. This study looks at the problems created by the close proximity of communities using the two official languages, French and English, and at the rules…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Culture Conflict, Demography, Educational Policy
Stuart, Amy – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2006
This paper examines the political meanings of language in the USA, from the perspectives of both majority- and minority-language groups, and focuses especially on Mainstream US English, African-American Vernacular English, and Spanish. It briefly traces the history of language policy in US education and argues that because language serves as a…
Descriptors: Language Role, Public Policy, Educational History, Politics of Education