Voices of Authority: Education and Linguistic Difference

This collection of case studies examines how struggles for equality unfold in policies, programmes, and practices in educational settings in multicultural contexts. Using sociolinguistic, interactional and discourse analysis, the authors examine the complex ways in which dominant ideologies of education, pedagogy, language and identity intersect in a wide variety of educational settings. They focus in particular on how those ideologies are reproduced or challenged, and on the consequences of such processes for changing or maintaining social relations of difference and inequality. Written for policy-makers, educators and anyone else interested in education and multilingualism, this book places questions of power at the centre of thinking about language and education.