Multilingual Education in South Asia: At the Intersection of Policy and Practice

This edited volume explores the challenges,approaches,and solutions associated with interpreting,adapting,and applying language-in-education policies in linguistically complex teaching and learning environments across South Asia. It offers insights from scholars,practitioners,pupils,parents,and the community,highlighting the pedagogical,practical,ideological,and identity-related implications of current policies. The volume is intended for academics and practitioners in education,linguistics,sociology,anthropology,and South Asian studies,as well as language policy advisors,curriculum developers,teacher educators,teachers,and members of funding bodies,aid providers,and NGOs.

Format: Hardback
Length: 174 pages
Publication date: 18 May 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Spanning scholarly contributions from India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, this edited volume seeks to capture and elucidate the distinct challenges, approaches, and possible solutions associated with interpreting, adapting, and applying language-in-education policies in a range of linguistically complex teaching and learning environments across South Asia. Centering on-the-ground perspectives of scholars, practitioners, pupils, parents, and the larger community, the volume offers new insights into one of the most complex, populous, and diverse multilingual educational contexts in the world.

Language-in-education policies and practices within this setting represent particularly high stakes issues, playing a pivotal role in determining access to literacy, thereby forming a critical pivot in the reproduction of educational inequality. The broad aim of the collection is thus to highlight the pedagogical, practical, ideological, and identity-related implications arising from current language-in-education policies in this region, with the aim of illustrating how systemic inequality is intertwined with such policies and their associated interpretations.

Aimed at both academics and practitioners - whether researchers and students in the fields of education, linguistics, sociology, anthropology, or South Asian studies, on the one hand, or language policy advisors, curriculum developers, teacher educators, teachers, and members of funding bodies, aid providers, or NGOs, on the other - it is anticipated that the accounts in this volume will offer their readership opportunities to consider their wider implications and applications across other rich multilingual settings - be these local, regional, national, or global.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367746049