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This book challenges the reader to consider issues of language and linguistic discrimination as they impact world language education. Using the nexus of race, language, and education as a lens through which one can better understand the role of the world language education classroom as both a setting of oppression and as a potential setting for transformation, Democracy and World Language Education: Toward a Transformation offers insights into...

This book challenges the reader to consider issues of language and linguistic discrimination as they impact world language education. Using the nexus of race, language, and education as a lens through which one can better understand the role of the world language education classroom as both a setting of oppression and as a potential setting for transformation, Democracy and World Language Education: Toward a Transformation offers insights into...

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Timothy G. Reagan and Terry A. Osborn address major issues facing the world language educator today, including language myths, advocacy, the perceived and real benefits of language learning, linguistic human rights, constructivism, learning theories, language standards, monolingualism, and teaching the classics.

‘This book provides the first comprehensive study of language legitimacy and social justice. It tackles the very real problem of language prejudice and offers solutions to dealing with this problem. Dr. Reagan has spent his entire career debunking misconceptions about the “value” of one language or one dialect over another and consolidates his findings here with reference to a substantial body of previous research covering a wide variety of la...

Informative and mind-opening, this text uniquely provides a comprehensive overview of a range of non-Western approaches to educational thought and practice. Its premise is that understanding the ways that other people educate their children¿as well as what counts for them as "education"¿may help readers to think more clearly about some of their own assumptions and values, and to become more open to alternative viewpoints about important educat...

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This book has a pedagogical goal in mind, it is not a scholarly work so much as an applied text informed by scholarship and research. The book's goal is to provide individuals who are teaching courses in comparative and international education, educational administration, educational policy, and politics of education with a supplementary text that can be used to help their students develop skills in policy analysis, evaluation and develo...

This book has a pedagogical goal in mind, it is not a scholarly work so much as an applied text informed by scholarship and research. The book's goal is to provide individuals who are teaching courses in comparative and international education, educational administration, educational policy, and politics of education with a supplementary text that can be used to help their students develop skills in policy analysis, evaluation and develo...

The sixteenth volume in the Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities series provides both knowledgeable language policymakers and sign language experts the information and means to apply their expertise jointly for future language planning for sign languages.

Praise for the First Edition: `For teacher researchers at all levels of the management hierarchy. Excellent case studies around specific issues in the lives of teachers from beginners to old hands. Case studies contextualised in recent and relevant theoretical literature. First class chapters on 'Reflective practice and the teacher' and on 'Towards a culture of inquiry in school'. I have already gained a lot from this book myself and will rec...

Provides a comprehensive introduction to critical language awareness and critical language pedagogy for educators and future educators in virtually all subject areas and at all levels.

Critical Questions, Critical Perspectives: Language and the Second Language Educator is intended primarily for language educators.

Critical Questions, Critical Perspectives: Language and the Second Language Educator is intended primarily for language educators.

Introduces teachers & future teachers of foreign langs. to what they need to know & understand about lang, lang attitudes, lang practices, lang rights, lang policy, and related issues. Brings together foreign lang ed and critical pedagogy. Designed for

Praise for the First Edition: `For teacher researchers at all levels of the management hierarchy. Excellent case studies around specific issues in the lives of teachers from beginners to old hands. Case studies contextualised in recent and relevant theoretical literature. First class chapters on 'Reflective practice and the teacher' and on 'Towards a culture of inquiry in school'. I have already gained a lot from this book myself and will rec...

A volume in Contemporary Language Education Series Editor: Terry A. Osborn, Fordham University This book addresses a timely and very important topic: language in education. Language, apparently, is a very tricky business. On the one hand, everyone uses language, and virtually everyone has strong views about language. In the educational domain this seems to be especially true. Language is not merely an intrinsic component of the educationa...

A volume in Contemporary Language Education Series Editor: Terry A. Osborn, Fordham University This book addresses a timely and very important topic: language in education. Language, apparently, is a very tricky business. On the one hand, everyone uses language, and virtually everyone has strong views about language. In the educational domain this seems to be especially true. Language is not merely an intrinsic component of the educationa...

Introduces teachers & future teachers of foreign langs. to what they need to know & understand about lang, lang attitudes, lang practices, lang rights, lang policy, and related issues. Brings together foreign lang ed and critical pedagogy. Designed for/P>