Policy and Practice for Multilingual Educational Settings: Comparisons across Contexts: 138 (Bilingual Education & Bilingualism) - Hardcover

Siv Björklund; Mikaela Björklund

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1800412983 ISBN 13: 9781800412989

Publisher: Multilingual Matters, 2023

Synopsis

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 in the Global North. The authors of each chapter compare and contrast findings across geographical contexts with the goal of understanding the facets of multilingualism that, on the one hand, conform across contexts, and on the other, diverge context-specifically. The chapters range from contributions with a focus on national/state planning for the development of sustainable multilingual and intercultural educational policies, to chapters that deal with multilingual practices and identities of students and student teachers as well as the consequences for language practices, strategies and policies in diversifying societies. This cross-contextual, comparative and interdisciplinary exploration of multilingualism will be of great interest to researchers, administrators, practitioners and students within the fields of multilingual education, sociolinguistics, youth culture and identity studies. The book is open access under a CC BY NC ND licence.

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About the Author

Siv Björklund is Professor of Education at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. Her research interests include language immersion and multilingual education and she serves as a board member of the Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education.

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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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1800412983
• ISBN 13: 9781800412989
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 232
• Editor: Björklund Siv, Björklund Mikaela