Multilingual education in South Asia at the intersection of policy and practice / edited by Lina Adinolfi, Usree Bhattacharya and Prem Phyak.

Other author Adinolfi, Lina, 1961-
Other author Bhattacharya, Usree, 1977-
Other author Phyak, Prem, 1980-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.
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SeriesRoutledge series in language and content integrated teaching & plurilingual education
Contents The dynamics of bilingual education in post-conflict Sri Lanka / Harsha Dulari Wijesekera and M. Obaidul Hamid -- Multilingual practices in Indian classrooms : exploring and supporting teacher awareness and classroom strategies / Amy Lightfoot, Rama Mathew, Lina Mukhopadhyay and Ianthi M. Tsimpli -- English as a medium of instruction, social stratification and symbolic violence in Nepali schools : untold stories of Madhesi children / Pramod K. Sah -- Policy to practice, national to local : multilingual education at the meso and micro levels of Western Nepal / Naomi Fillmore and Jnanu Raj Paudel -- Multilingualism and English learning in Pakistan : towards an effective multilingual policy / Imdad Ullah Khan, Louisa Buckingham and Martin East -- Bilingual early schooling among tribal children in India : evidence of long-term learning gains / Stanley V. John -- Medium of instruction, outcome-based education (OBE) and language education policy in Bangladesh / Tania Rahman and Prem Phyak -- Participation of Saora children in MLE and MLE Plus schools in Odisha, India : lessons learned and lessons to learn / Sakshi Manocha.
Abstract "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. Centring 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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Multilingual education in South Asia New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022 9780367746049
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