Table of Contents
Preface
Part I: Language Policy in Education
- Critical Issues in Language Policy in Education
James W. Tollefson
- Language Policy in a Time of Crisis and Transformation
James W. Tollefson
- Multiple Actors and Arenas in Evolving Language Policies
Mary McGroarty
Part II: Competing Agendas
- A Brief History and Assessment of Language Rights in the
United States
Terrence G. Wiley
- Righting Language Wrongs in a Plurilingual Context: Language
Policy and Practice in Nicaragua’s Caribbean Coast Region
Jane Freeland
- Positioning the Language Policy Arbiter: Governmentality and
Footing in the School District of Philadelphia
David Cassels Johnson
Part III: Indigenous Languages in Postcolonial Education
- Language and Education in Kenya: Between the Colonial Legacy
and the New Constitutional Order
Alamin Mazrui
- Language-in-Education Policy and Planning in Africa’s
Monolingual Kingdoms of Lesotho and Swaziland
Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu
Part IV: Language and Global Capitalism
- The Japanisation of English Language Education: Promotion of the
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