Language and Education in Japan - Unequal Access to Bilingualism

The first critical ethnography of bilingual education in Japan. Based on fieldwork at five different schools, this examines the role of schools in the unequal distribution of bilingualism as cultural capital. It argues that schooling gives children unequal access to bilingualism thus socializing them into different futures.

List of contents

Introduction Framing the Study Nichiei Immersion School Zhonghua Chinese Ethnic School Hal International School Sugino Elementary School Midori Elementary School Imagined Communities and School Policies and Practices Student Bilingualism and Identities Conclusions: Unequal Access to Bilingualism Bibliography Index

About the author

YASUKO KANNO is Associate Professor of TESOL in the College of Education at Temple University, Philadelphia, USA. Her research interests include bilingual education, multilingual and multicultural identities, and sociocultural experiences of language minority students. She is author of Negotiating Bilingual and Bicultural Identities: Japanese Returnees Betwixt Two Worlds. She serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Language, Identity, and Education and the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism.

Summary

The first critical ethnography of bilingual education in Japan. Based on fieldwork at five different schools, this examines the role of schools in the unequal distribution of bilingualism as cultural capital. It argues that schooling gives children unequal access to bilingualism thus socializing them into different futures.

Report

'Language and Education in Japan makes a welcome contribution both to
critical studies of language education, and specifically to understanding
bilingualism in Japan. I recommend it to scholars interested in applied
linguistics, language education, and contemporary Japan.'
- Chad Nilep, Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado, USA (via Linguist List)

Product details

• Authors: Y Kanno, Y. Kanno
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349353248
• ISBN: 978-1-349-35324-8
• No. of pages: 218
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities; Palgrave Studies in Minority L; Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; B, Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, languages, Multilingualism, Language and Literature, Psycholinguistics and Cognitive Lingusitics, Psycholinguistics, Literature: history & criticism, Language: reference & general, Literary studies: general, Stylistics, Philology, Bilingualism & multilingualism, East & Southeast Asian languages, Language and languages, Asian Languages, Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection, Oriental literature, Asian Literature