Language, Education, and Identity: Medium in South Asia

ISBN-13: 9780367626525 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 232 str.

Chaise Ladousa; Christina P. Davis

Opis

This book examines medium of instruction in education and studies its social, economic, and political significance in the lives of people living in South Asia.

Spis treści

1. Medium in South Asia: Ethnography, Discourse, and Policy Part I: The Meanings of Medium 2. Medium and Coaching Centers in North India 3. Medium Discourses and the Construction of Self and Other in Social Media in Postcolonial Bangladesh 4. Media of Medium: Language Boundaries and Multimodal Semiotic Ecologies in Nepali Schools for Deaf Students Part II: Medium, Identity, and the Production of Inequality 5. Romance, Austen, and English-Medium Schooling in Pakistan 6. Muslims in Sri Lankan Language Politics: Tamil- and English-Medium Education 7. Labor Migration and English-Medium Schooling in Nepal 8. English-Medium Education and Patriarchy: Narratives of Indian Women 9. Recognizing Diversity: ‘Multiethnic’ Sinhala- and Tamil-medium Schools in Sri Lanka Part III: Medium and Considerations of Policy 10. The Right to Education Act: Medium and Dis-citizenship