Decolonisation, Globalisation: Language-in-Education Policy and Practice. New Perspectives on Language and Education

Foreword - On the Possibilities of a Post-Postcolonial Language Education Allan Luke (National Institute of Education, Singapore) 1. From a Critical Deconstruction Paradigm to a Critical Construction Paradigm Angel Lin & Peter Martin 2. Nation Building in a Globalised World - Language Choice in Education in India E. Annamalai (Vice President of Terralingua, Washington D.C.) 3. Critical, Trans-disciplinary Perspectives on Language-in-Education Policy and Practice in Postcolonial Contexts - The Case of Hong Kong Angel Lin 4. Remaking Singapore for the New Age - Official Ideology and the Realities of Practice in Language-in-Education Rani Rubdi (National Institute of Education in Singapore) 5. 'Safe' Language Practices in Two Rural Schools in Malaysia Peter Martin 6. The Four Language Stages in the History of Iran Abdolmehdi Riazi (Shiraz University, Iran) 7. Higher Education Language Policy and the Challenge of Linguistic Imperialism - A Turkish Case Study Timothy Reagan (Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island) & Sandra Schreffler (Appalachian State University) 8. Language Classroom Practices in Kenya Grace Bunyi (Kenyatta University, Nairobi) 9. Language and the Struggle to Learn - The Intersection of Classroom Realities, Language Policy, and Neo-Colonial and Globalisation Discourses in South African Schools Margie Probyn (Rhodes University, South Africa) 10. Language-in-Education Policies and Practices in Africa with a Special Focus on Tanzania and South Africa - Insights from Research in Progress Birgit Brock-Utne (University of Oslo) 11. Accommodating Tensions in Language-in-Education Policies - An Afterword Suresh Canagarajah (City University of New York