Language, Education and Neoliberalism: Critical Studies in Sociolinguistics (Critical Language and Literacy Studies, 23) (Volume 23)

This book presents an empirical account of how neoliberal ideas are adopted on the ground by different actors in different educational settings. It aims to produce a complex understanding of how neoliberal rationalities are articulated within locally anchored and historical regimes of knowledge on language, education and society. Contents 6 Contributors 8 Series Editors’ Preface 12 1. Language, Education and Neoliberalism 18 2. The Commodification of Language in Neoliberalizing China: The Cases of English and Mandarin 36 3. ‘A Treasure’ and ‘A Legacy’: Individual and Communal (Re)valuing of Isthmus Zapotec in Multilingual Mexico 54 4. From Language-as-Resource to Language-as-Struggle: Resisting the Coke-ification of Bilingual Education 79 5. English as the Medium of Instruction in Korean Higher Education: Language and Subjectivity as Critical Perspective on Neoliberalism 99 6. Internationalization and English Language Learning in Higher Education in Canada: A Case Study of Brazilian STEM Scholarship Students 118 7. Neoliberalism in ELT Aid: Interrogating a USAID ELT Project in Southern Philippines 139 8. Enterprising Migrants: Language and the Shifting Politics of Activation 157 9. Assembling Language Policy: Challenging Standardization and Quantification in the Education of Refugee Students in a US School 180 10. The Games People Play: A Critical Study of ‘Resource Leeching’ Among ‘Blended’ English for Academic Purpose Professionals in Neoliberal Universities 201 11. Win-Win?! Language Regulation for Competitiveness in a University Context 221 12. Neoliberal Reforms in Language Education: Major Trends, Uneven Outcomes, Open Questions 246 Index 259 This edited volume presents an empirical account of how neoliberal ideas are adopted on the ground by different actors in different educational settings, from bilingual education in the US, to migrant work programmes in Italy, to minority language teaching in Mexico. It examines language and education as objects of neoliberalization and as powerful tools and sites through which ideological principles underpinning neoloberal societies and economies are (re)produced and maintained (and with that, inequality and exclusion). This book aims to produce a complex understanding of how neoliberal rationalities are articulated within locally anchored and historical regimes of knowledge on language, education and society. Book jacket

This edited volume presents an empirical account of how neoliberal ideas are adopted on the ground by different actors in different educational settings, from bilingual education in the US, to migrant work programmes in Italy, to minority language teaching in Mexico. It examines language and education as objects of neoliberalization and as powerful tools and sites through which ideological principles underpinning neoliberal societies and economies are (re)produced and maintained (and with that, inequality and exclusion). This book aims to produce a complex understanding of how neoliberal rationalities are articulated within locally anchored and historical regimes of knowledge on language, education and society.