Language, Education and Neoliberalism: Critical Studies in Sociolinguistics

by Mi-Cha Flubacher (Editor), Alfonso Del Percio (Editor)

Overview

This edited volume presents an empirical account of how neoliberal ideas are adopted on the ground by different actors in different educational settings, from bilingual education in the US, to migrant work programmes in Italy, to minority language teaching in Mexico. It examines language and education as objects of neoliberalization and as powerful tools and sites through which ideological principles underpinning neoliberal societies and economies are (re)produced and maintained (and with that, inequality and exclusion). This book aims to produce a complex understanding of how neoliberal rationalities are articulated within locally anchored and historical regimes of knowledge on language, education and society.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781783098675
Publisher:	Channel View Publications
Publication date:	09/25/2017
Series:	Critical Language and Literacy Studies , #23
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	5.85(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.55(d)

About the Author

Mi-Cha Flubacher works in the Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna, Austria. Her research interests include language and work, and language and migration/integration.

Alfonso Del Percio works in the UCL Institute of Education, UniversityCollege London, UK. His research interests include language and work, and language and political economy.

Table of Contents

1. Alfonso Del Percio and Mi-Cha Flubacher: Language, Education and Neoliberalism

2. Shuang Gao: The Commodification of Language in Neoliberalizing China: The Cases of English and Mandarin

3. Haley De Korne: “A Treasure” And “A Legacy”: Individual And Communal (Re)Valuing Of Isthmus Zapotec in Multilingual Mexico

4. Nelson Flores: From Language-As-Resource to Language-As-Struggle: Resisting the Coke-Ification of Bilingual Education

5. Joseph S.Y. Park: English As Medium of Instruction in Korean Higher Education: Language and Subjectivity as Critical Perspective on Neoliberalism

6. Jonathan Luke: Internationalization and English Language Learning In Higher Education in Canada: A Case Study Of Brazilian STEM Scholarship Students

7. Honey Tabiola and Beatriz Lorente: Neoliberalism In ELT Aid: Interrogating a USAID ELT Project in Southern Philippines

8. Alfonso Del Percio and Sarah Van Hoof: Enterprising Migrants: Language and the Shifting Politics of Activation

9. Jill Koyama: Assembling Language Policy: Challenging Standardization and Quantification in the Education of Refugee Students in A US School

10. Gregory Hadley: The Games People Play: A Critical Study of “Resource Leeching” Among “Blended” English for Academic Purpose Professionals in Neoliberal Universityies

11. Martina Zimmermann and Mi-Cha Flubacher: Win-Win?! Language Regulation for Competitiveness in a UniversityContext

12. Mary McGroarty: Neoliberal Reforms in Language Education: Major Trends, Uneven Outcomes, Open Questions

Biographical Information

Editorial Reviews

This book offers much food for thought for anyone interested in how language education is embedded in larger economic, political, social, and cultural processes.

ELT Journal Volume 72, Issue 4, October 2018 - David Block

A rich collection of empirical studies showing how important language education and language of education are as terrains for struggles around neoliberal governmentality, and illuminating debates about what neoliberalism is, how it works for individuals, groups, corporations and states, and where its contradictions lie.

Monica Heller

This book opens up a ground-breaking space for understanding how neoliberalism has permeated education worldwide and consequently affects the way people make sense of, and invest in, language and multilingualism. It captures and engages readers in the complexities of the triple resignification of education, of language and of the self. Essential reading for all those troubled by present challenges.

Luisa Martín Rojo

This volume presents extensive research on the relationship between neoliberal ideology, language and education. One of the many strengths of this volume is in how a variety of methods and analytical approaches are deployed to address neoliberalism. 

LINGUIST List 29.3315 - Andrew Jocuns

The wide-ranging, sharply observed, and detailed ethnographic studies in this smart volume demonstrate language education policies and practices designed to promote subjectivities and values working more to the advantage of global capitalism than to students. The volume also demonstrates the unevenness of such neoliberal language projects: their shortcuts, failures, broken promises – and actors’ points of resistance.

Bonnie Urcuioli

This book opens up a ground-breaking space for understanding how neoliberalism has permeated education worldwide and consequently affects the way people make sense of, and invest in, language and multilingualism. It captures and engages readers in the complexities of the triple resignification of education, of language and of the self. Essential reading for all those troubled by present challenges.

Luisa Martín Rojo