This book describes a particular type of educational provision referred to as 'elite' or 'prestigious' bilingual education, which caters mainly for upwardly mobile, highly educated, higher socio-economic status learners of two or more internationally useful languages. The development of different types of elite bilingual or multilingual educational provision is discussed and an argument is made for the need to study bilingual education in majority as well as in minority contexts.

This volume surveys the research on discourse and education, adopting the broadest definition of discource . Discourse as talk-in-interaction, commonly espoused in studies of classroom discourse since the 1970s. Discourse as ways of understanding and constituting the social world, the critical, post-structuralist view of discourse as a source of power. Several themes resonate across the four sections and the chapters within them: Widening the scope of enquiry, combining approaches to discourse Linking the study of discourse with ethnography Dealing with the changing nature of contemporary...