Petrovic A Post-Liberal Approach to Language Policy in Education

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-78309-286-4
Verlag: Multilingual Matters
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 41

Reihe: New Perspectives on Language and Education

This provocative defense of language diversity works through the strengths and weaknesses of liberal political theory to inform language policy. The book presents the argument that policy must occupy the space between 'linguistics of community' and 'linguistics of contact' in a way that balances individual autonomy and group recognition while not reifying 'language'. Drawing on the importance of the language/identity link, the author distinguishes between language negative liberalism and language positive liberalism, arguing against the former. This distinction orients consideration of increasingly specific language policy issues, such as official languages, language rights, bilingual education, and uses of language varieties within classrooms.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Petrovic, John E.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Mehrsprachigkeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Language Policy, Identity, and Liberalism: Some Foundational Connections

2. Formalist Liberalism and Language Policy

3. Saving Liberalism: Communities, Language, and Schooling

4. The Promise and Problem in Linguistic Human Rights

5. Post Linguistic Human Rights?

6. Post-Liberal Language in Education Policy

7. A Post-Liberal Approach: Broadening Language and Narrowing Policy

Über Autor(innen)

Petrovic, John E.
Dr. John E. Petrovic is Professor of Social and Cultural Studies in Education at The University of Alabama. He teaches in the areas of Philosophy of (Higher) Education, Language Policy, and Critical Multicultural Education. Dr. Petrovic has published in a variety of scholarly journals including Educational Theory, Educational Philosophy and Theory, Studies in Philosophy of Education, Oxford Review of Education, and Language Sciences. He won the Sebeok-Love Award for best article in Language Sciences in 2022. Petrovic is Executive Editor of Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education and Co-Editor of Thresholds in Education. His recent books include Unschooling Critical Pedagogy, Unfixing Schools (Peter Lang) and The Commodification of Language Conceptual Concerns and Empirical Manifestations (w/ Bedrettin Yazan, Routledge).

John E. Petrovic is a Professor of Educational Leadership and Foundations of Education at The University of Alabama, USA. His research interests include the philosophy of education, education policy, language policy, and issues of diversity in education. He is the series editor of Studies in the Philosophy of Education, by Information Age Publishing.