Policy and Practice for Multilingual Educational Settings - Comparisons across Contexts

Exploring multilingualism as a complex, context-related, societal and individual phenomenon, this book centres around perspectives on how multiple languages are made (in)visible within educational settings. The chapters compare findings across geographical contexts in the areas of language policy and planning, multilingual practices and identity.

About the author

Siv Björklund is Full Professor of Swedish Immersion and Multilingualism at the Faculty of Education and Welfare Studies at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. During her academic career, she has been actively involved in developing immersion and other bi- and multilingual education programs both in Finland and internationally. Her research encompasses individual, institutional and societal bi- and multilingual issues. Her recent research projects focus on the relation between praxis, ideology and identity in multilingual settings, dominant language constellations, bi- and multilingual pedagogies, writing in a second language, and minority speakers.
Mikaela Björklund is City Manager of Närpes and a researcher at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. Her research focuses on multilingualism and multiculturalism in education in the Nordic contries, as well as CLIL, linguistic schoolscapes and Dominant Language Constellations.

Summary

Exploring multilingualism as a complex, context-related, societal and individual phenomenon, this book centres around perspectives on how multiple languages are made (in)visible within educational settings. The chapters compare findings across geographical contexts in the areas of language policy and planning, multilingual practices and identity.

Product details

• Assisted by: Mikaela Bjoerklund (Editor), Siv Bjoerklund (Editor), Mikaela Björklund (Editor), Siv Björklund (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2023
• EAN: 9781800412989
• ISBN: 978-1-80041-298-9
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 500 g
• Series: Bilingual Education & Bilingua; Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, EDUCATION / Special Education / General, Educational strategies & policy, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Bilingualism and multilingualism, Educational strategies and policy, Education of bilingual or multilingual students