Language Planning and Student Experiences

Intention, Rhetoric and Implementation
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-78309-004-4
Verlag: Channel View Publications - IPSUK

Buch, Englisch, 168 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 340 g

Reihe: Multilingual Matters

This book is a timely comparison of the divergent worlds of policy implementation and policy ambition, the messy, often contradictory here-and-now reality of languages in schools and the sharp-edged, shiny, future-oriented representation of languages in policy. Two deep rooted tendencies in Australian political and social life, multiculturalism and Asian regionalism, are represented as key phases in the country’s experimentation with language education planning. Presenting data from a five year ethnographic study combined with a 40 year span of policy analysis, this volume is a rare book length treatment of the chasm between imagined policy and its experienced delivery, and will provide insights that policymakers around the world can draw on.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lo Bianco, Joseph

Aliani, Renata

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Aims, Limitations and Questions

Chapter 1: Remaking a Nation through Language Policy

Chapter 2: Australia’s Italian and Japanese

Chapter 3: The Research Approach and the Schools

Chapter 4: Student Subjectivity

Chapter 5: Pushing Policy to be Real

Über Autor(innen)

Aliani, Renata
Renata Aliani is a researcher within the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, Australia. Her research interests focus primarily on Italian, bilingual education, teacher training and leadership. She has been the convener of the Melbourne-based online Q Research Group since its inception in 2016.

Lo Bianco, Joseph
Joseph Lo Bianco is Professor Emeritus of language and literacy education, University of Melbourne, Australia and Vice President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He has published widely on language policy and planning across a wide range of geographical and language contexts.

Joseph Lo Bianco is Professor of Language and Literacy Education at the University of Melbourne and a noted language planning scholar and researcher. He is currently President of Tsinghua Asian-Pacific Forum on Translation and Intercultural Studies and Past President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

Renata Aliani is an experienced researcher, programme manager and educator at the Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne.