Jürgen Jaspers

Monolingual Policies in Multilingual Schools (eBook, ePUB)

Tensions, Ambivalence, and Thinking Teachers

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Produktbeschreibung

Two teacher types populate the socio- and applied linguistic research on language-in-education: the critical 'agent of change,' who challenges monolingual policies by encouraging pupils to use non-curricular languages in class; and the conservative 'servant of the state,' who acts out a monolingual ideology. Both of these types are useful for advocating multilingual education policies, but they leave much ordinary behavior unaccounted for. The interest in critical and conservative teachers encourages us to praise or blame teachers, moreover, while it invites incompatible explanations: critical teachers have somehow escaped an ideology that their conservative colleagues are completely deceived by. In Monolingual Policies in Multilingual Schools, Jürgen Jaspers shows how a more complex understanding of teacher behavior is crucial to explain how teachers navigate the competing concerns of the authorities who pay their salaries, the pupils whose opportunities they wish to support, and the scholars who share their knowledge with them. Drawing on seven years of research in Dutch-medium schools in Belgium, Jaspers investigates how teachers at monolingual schools deal with the fact that they teach linguistically diverse groups of pupils. He demonstrates that this results in variable, ambivalent, and often contradictory practices and opinions, as teachers continuously juggle competing social and linguistic values with what works in a given classroom. Recognizing that inconsistency and contradiction in teacher behavior is a result of adjusting to variable circumstances means understanding that a single approach may not work, and that a convincing and critical sociolinguistics can generate potential change when it insists on a variety of opinions about language and on the prospect of informed deliberation and debate. Jaspers argues that this capacity is crucial for attending to the multiple, competing goals that classroom interaction presents; that it typically invites inconsistent, albeit rational, behavior; and that if this inconsistency is common and chronic, researchers on language-in-education need to improve their radar and develop a different kind of dialogue with teachers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP eBook
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197698150
• Artikelnr.: 72267311

Autorenporträt

Jürgen Jaspers is Professor of Dutch linguistics and sociolinguistics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium. He publishes widely on classroom interaction, urban multilingualism, language variation, and language policy and ideology. He is co-editor (with Eva Codó) of Multilingua. Journal of Cross-cultural and Interlanguage Communication, and has edited various special issues and book volumes, including Critical perspectives on linguistic fixity and fluidity (2019, Routledge, with Lian Malai Madsen).

Inhaltsangabe

List of tables
List of figures
Acknowledgements
Transcription conventions
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Heroes, villains, and other teachers
Chapter 3: Ideological contradictions and ambivalence
Chapter 4: Brusseling language, bustling friction
Chapter 5: Imposing, restricting, and alluding to monolingualism
Chapter 6: Mundane multilingualism
Chapter 7: Multilingual openings
Chapter 8: Critical dialogue, autonomy, and alternatives
Chapter 9: Objectivity and values in research
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