Medium of instruction policies : which agenda? whose agenda? / edited by James W. Tollefson, Amy B.M. Tsui.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tollefson, James W.

Tsui, Amy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Native language and education--Government policy--Cross-cultural studies.

Native language and education.

Education, Bilingual--Government policy--Cross-cultural studies.

Education, Bilingual.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Publishers, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Medium of instruction policies in education have considerable impact not only on the school performance of students and the daily work of teachers, but also on various forms of social and economic (in)equality. In many multiethnic and multilingual countries, the choice of a language for the medium of instruction in state educational systems raises a fundamental and complex educational question: what combination of instruction in students' native language(s) and in a second language of wider communication will ensure that students gain both effective subject-content education, as

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Contributors; 1 The Centrality of Medium-of-Instruction Policy in Sociopolitical Processes; I Minority Languages in English-Dominant States; 2 Maori-Medium Education in Aotearoa/New Zealand; 3 Bilingual Education and Language Revitalization in Wales: Past Achievements and Current Issues; 4 Dangerous Difference: A Critical-Historical Analysis of Language Education Policies in the United States; II Language in Post-Colonial States; 5 Medium of Instruction in Hong Kong: One Country, Two Systems, Whose Language?

6 Medium-of-Instruction Policy in Singapore7 Medium-of-Instruction Policy in Higher Education in Malaysia: Nationalism Versus Internationalization; 8 Rural Students and the Philippine Bilingual Education Program on the Island of Leyte; 9 Medium of Power: The Question of English in Education in India; 10 Medium of Instruction in Post-Colonial Africa; III Managing and Exploiting Language Conflict; 11 Language Policy in Post-Apartheid South Africa; 12 Indigenous Language Education in Bolivia and Ecuador: Contexts, Changes, and Challenges

13 Medium of Instruction in Slovenia: European Integration and Ethnolinguistic Nationalism14 Contexts of Medium-of-Instruction Policy; Author Index; Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-135-63260-X

1-135-63261-8

1-282-37478-8

9786612374784

1-4106-0932-4

OCLC:

437204730