Language and Power in Post-Colonial Schooling

Ideologies in Practice

Carolyn McKinney (University of Cape Town, South Africa)

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Routledge
09 August 2016

Bilingualism & multilingualism; Teaching of students with English as a second language (TESOL)

Series: Language, Culture, and Teaching Series

Critiquing the positioning of children from non-dominant groups as linguistically deficient, this book aims to bridge the gap between theorizing of language in critical sociolinguistics and approaches to language in education. Carolyn McKinney uses the lens of linguistic ideologies—teachers’ and students’ beliefs about language—to shed light on the continuing problem of reproduction of linguistic inequality. Framed within global debates in sociolinguistics and applied linguistics, she examines the case of historically white schools in South Africa, a post-colonial context where political power has shifted but where the power of whiteness continues, to provide new insights into the complex relationships between language and power, and language and subjectivity. Implications for language curricula and policy in contexts of linguistic diversity are foregrounded.

Providing an accessible overview of the scholarly literature on language ideologies and language as social practice and resource in multilingual contexts, Language and Power in Post-Colonial Schooling uses the conceptual tools it presents to analyze classroom interaction and ethnographic observations from the day-to-day life in case study schools and explores implications of both the research literature and the analyses of students’ and teachers’ discourses and practices for language in education policy and curriculum.

By: Carolyn McKinney (University of Cape Town South Africa)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 272g
ISBN: 9781138844070
ISBN 10: 1138844071
Series: Language, Culture, and Teaching Series
Pages: 178
Publication Date: 09 August 2016
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Foreword Hilary Janks Preface Chapter 1 What counts as [a] language? Chapter 2 What counts as language in education policy and curricula? Chapter 3 Whose language resources count in schooling? Chapter 4 Anglonormativity: language ideologies and the reproduction of race Chapter 5 Positioning students in an Anglonormative English class: asymmetrical relations of knowing. Chapter 6 Hope I: Students’ agency in interrupting Anglonormativity Chapter 7 Hope II: Interrupting Anglonormativty through transformative pedagogies Chapter 8 Conclusion: Changing what counts as legitimate language use in schooling

Carolyn McKinney is Associate Professor, Language Education, School of Education, University of Cape Town, South Africa.