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Language and Education in Japan
Unequal Access to Bilingualism
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In this first critical ethnography of bilingual education in Japan, Yasuko Kanno examines the relationship between school education and inequality of access to bilingualism. She provides detailed and vivid accounts of the lived experiences of teachers, students and parents at five schools in Japan: an immersion school, a Chinese ethnic school, an international school, and two state/ 'public' schools. Drawing on the concept of imagined communities, Yasuko Kanno argues that schools provide unequal access to bilingualism by envisioning different imagined communities for students of different socioeconomic classes and socializing them into these stratified imagined communities. While additive bilingualism in two socially prestigious languages is aggressively promoted for upper-middle-class students, immigrant and refugee children are subtly coerced into replacing their first language with society's dominant language.
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Palgrave Macmillan; January 2008
219 pages; ISBN 9780230591585
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219 pages; ISBN 9780230591585
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Subject categories
- Academic > Education > Individual institutions; Asia, Africa and Oceana > Asia > Japan
- Academic > Languages and Linguistics > Philology. Linguistics > General
- Academic > Languages and Linguistics > Philology. Linguistics > Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar
- Education > Teaching Methods & Materials
- Education > Philosophy & Social Aspects
- Education > Bilingual Education
- Social Science > Special Groups
- Language Arts & Disciplines > Linguistics
ISBNs
0230591582
9780230506947
9780230591585