Language and Power in Post-Colonial Schooling: Ideologies in Practice

by Carolyn Wendy McKinney and Carolyn McKinney

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138844071
• ISBN13: 9781138844070
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"