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1 online resource (319 pages) |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Contributors; 1 The Centrality of Medium-of-Instruction Policy in Sociopolitical Processes; I Minority Languages in English-Dominant States; 2 Maori-Medium Education in Aotearoa/New Zealand; 3 Bilingual Education and Language Revitalization in Wales: Past Achievements and Current Issues; 4 Dangerous Difference: A Critical-Historical Analysis of Language Education Policies in the United States; II Language in Post-Colonial States; 5 Medium of Instruction in Hong Kong: One Country, Two Systems, Whose Language? |
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6 Medium-of-Instruction Policy in Singapore7 Medium-of-Instruction Policy in Higher Education in Malaysia: Nationalism Versus Internationalization; 8 Rural Students and the Philippine Bilingual Education Program on the Island of Leyte; 9 Medium of Power: The Question of English in Education in India; 10 Medium of Instruction in Post-Colonial Africa; III Managing and Exploiting Language Conflict; 11 Language Policy in Post-Apartheid South Africa; 12 |
| Summary |
This work examines the tension between the educational agendas and other social and political agendas underlying medium of instruction policies in various different countries. It unravels the connections between these policies and the related educational, social, political and economic issues |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Englisch, ... gnd |
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Native language and education -- Government policy -- Cross-cultural studies
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Education, Bilingual -- Government policy -- Cross-cultural studies
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Education, Bilingual -- Government policy
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Unterrichtssprache
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Sprachliche Minderheit
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Unterricht
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Zweisprachigkeit
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Sprachpolitik
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| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Tsui, Amy B. M
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| ISBN |
9781410609328 |
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1410609324 |
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