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This book will be of value to researchers and postgraduate students working in the fields of language policy and planning, multilingualism and language education.
List of contents
Foreword 1. The macro (structure) and micro (agency) dialectic in Multilingual Education Policy and Planning contexts 2
. Beyond the hegemony of national language-in-education policy: Creating multilingual environments through local agency in a marginalised school context in Bangladesh 3. Translanguaging as agentive resistance to hegemonic language policy mandates: Making a case for a self-reflexive stance in teacher agency development in India 4. 'Making up' for the trilingual policy tensions: A snapshot of the 'ground-up' appropriation and coping strategies 5. Teachers as Policy Navigators amidst Bureaucratized Language Policy Regimes in Pakistan 6. Silence as Agency: Unpacking and Addressing Resistance to Multilingualism and Multilingual Pedagogies 7. School Administrators' Agency in Planning Language of Instruction: But for Whom? 8. Micro language planning in the EMI classroom in Hong Kong: The role of student agency 9. Empowering Educators: Unravelling Teacher Agency in Navigating Convergent Management for International Students in Chinese Higher Education 10. Teacher Agency in Negotiating English Language Class Writing for Young Learners in Singapore 11. Empowering preservice teachers' agency in multilingual practices-a formative intervention design in an Australian teacher education program Afterword
About the author
Syed Abdul Manan, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. His research interests include language policy and planning, bilingual-multilingual education, English medium instruction (EMI), and World Englishes. He has published research in several prestigious journals. He has published research in several prestigious journals, including Language Policy, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Current Issues in Language Planning, Multilingua, and Language and Education.
Anas Hajar, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. He is particularly interested in motivational issues in language learning and intercultural engagement. He also works in the areas of internationalization and education abroad, language learning strategies and shadow education.
