Language Policies in Education: Critical Issues

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Language Policies in Education: Critical Issues

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How do language policies in education serve the interests of dominant groups within societies? How do policies marginalize some students while granting privilege to others? How do language policies in schools create inequalities among learners? How can schools further the educational, social, and economic interests of linguistic minorities?

These questions--the focus of the chapters in this book-- are at the heart of fundamental debates about the role of schools in society; the links between language policies and inequalities of class, region, and ethnicity/nationality; and conflicts between linguistic minorities and "mainstream" populations. The connections between language policies and inequality are examined, as well as successful efforts to use language policies in education to assert the social and linguistic rights of language minorities.

*All of the chapters are original and substantial contributions to the study of language policy and exemplify major theories and research methods in the field.
*The case studies are international in scope, including cutting-edge analyses of important language policy debates in North America, Australia, Eastern Europe, Africa, East Asia, South Asia, and the Pacific.
*The multiple meanings of critical language policy study are highlighted. First, the term refers to the field of critical linguistics. Second, the book seeks to develop readers' ability to critically "read" language policies--that is, to understand the social and political implications of particular policies adopted in specific historical contexts. Third, it features chapters that are critical of traditional analyses that fail to capture the full social and political context of language policies and too often accept uncritically the claims of policy.
*Sections are included on theoretical issues in language policies; the use of language policy for governance; the role of language policy in managing ethnic conflict; the link between language and globalization; and the impact of critical pedagogy on social change.

This volume is intended for scholars and other specialists in language policy, education, applied linguistics, critical linguistics, and language teaching. It is designed for use as a textbook in graduate and advanced undergraduate courses on language policy and language education.

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Arguing that the rescue of the Jewish people has been consistently misinterpreted, The Myth of Rescue states that no Jew who perished in the Holocaust could have been saved by any action of the Western Allies.

Presenting what was actually known of the Holocaust at the time and what actions were realistically possible, William D. Rubinstein traces the development of the arguments surrounding the debate and debunks the "myths" that were generated in the 1970s and '80s: the myth of the closed-door immigration policies in the years 1933-40 and the plans for rescue proposed by the democracies--including the bombing of concentration camps, the possibility that the War Refugee Board could have saved more Jews, and the rumors of negotiations between the democracies and Nazis to save Jewish lives.

Since its publication in mid 1997, The Myth of Rescue has commanded attention from all fronts, prompting a range of reactions--from vitriolic criticism to high praise. In this paperback edition, William D. Rubinstein addresses his critics in a new introduction, and armed with astounding scholarship, comments further on the many alleged lost opportunities for saving Jews available to the Allies.

Adolf Hitler trapped Jews in Europe and his minions murdered them. The Allies were sacrificing their economies and the lives of their citizens by the thousands daily at full throttle in a life and death war to end his rule and his evil. And that was the only realistic rescue effort possible or at least conceivable to the Allies, including Jewish leaders of the time.

While this book is not comprehensive -- it is the first of its type -- it does give a fresh persepctive. One interesting detail among many is that the leadership of the Jewish Agency for Palestine originally formally opposed bombing Auschwitz for fear of killing more Jews.

The author hedges and fudges his case a little by saying that even if there was a failure of will or effort, there was nevertheless the failure of possibility as well. Not much to do except win the war as Jews were in the hands of an obsessed powerful psychopath.

But the main fact remains -- saving Jews from Hitler was a goal of the Allied war effort (and pre-war humanitarian efforts) but it was subordinated to the effort of defeating Hitler because that was seen at the time as the best means and because there was, in most cases if not all, little else to be done.

But blame the world is a common and appealing cry of victimized groups, to those who feel strangely comforted by finding racism and anti-Semitism everywhere and from everyone.

In the aftermath of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and the systematic exile and incarceration of thousands of Japanese Americans, the National Japanese American Student Relocation Council was born. Created to facilitate the movement of Japanese American college students from concentration camps to colleges away from the West Coast, this privately organized and funded agency helped more than four thousand incarcerated students pursue higher education at more than six hundred schools during WWII.

Allan W. Austin’s From Concentration Camp to Campus examines the Council's work and the challenges it faced in an atmosphere of pervasive wartime racism. Austin also reveals the voices of students as they worked to construct their own meaning for wartime experiences under pressure of forced and total assimilation. Austin argues that the resettled students succeeded in reintegrating themselves into the wider American society without sacrificing their connections to community and their Japanese cultural heritage.