This new edition of takes a fresh look at 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.
James W. Tollefson is Professor, University of Hong Kong and Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington, USA.
Preface
Part I: Language Policy in Education
James W. Tollefson
James W. Tollefson
Mary McGroarty
Part II: Competing Agendas
United States
Terrence G. Wiley
Policy and Practice in Nicaragua's Caribbean Coast Region
Jane Freeland
Footing in the School District of Philadelphia
David Cassels Johnson
Part III: Indigenous Languages in Postcolonial Education
and the New Constitutional Order
Alamin Mazrui
Monolingual Kingdoms of Lesotho and Swaziland
Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu
Part IV: Language and Global Capitalism
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