Skip to main content
Log in

Language education policy in late modernity: insights from situated approaches—commentary

  • Original Paper
  • Published:
Language Policy Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

References

  • Berliner, D., & Biddle, B. J. (1995). The manufactured crisis: Myths, fraud, and the attacks on America’s schools. New York: Perseus Books.

    Google Scholar 

  • Blumenstyk, G. (2014). American higher education in crisis? What everyone needs to know. New York: Oxford University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Chilton, P. (2004). Analyzing political discourse: Theory and practice. London: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Cochran-Smith, M., & Fries, M. K. (2001). Sticks, stones, and ideology: The discourse of reform in teacher education. Educational Researcher, 30(8), 3–15.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Conrad, P. (1997). Public eyes and private genes: Historical frames, news constructions, and social problems. Social Problems, 44(2), 139–154.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Dawson, C. (2010). The crisis of Western education. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Farber, B. A. (1991). Crisis in education: Stress and burnout in the American teacher. New York: Jossey-Bass.

    Google Scholar 

  • Figlio, D., & Loeb, S. (2011). School accountability. In E. A. Hanushek, S. Machin, & L. Woessmann (Eds.), Handbooks in economics (Vol. 3, pp. 383–421). North-Holland, Netherlands: Elesevier.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hout, M., & Elliott, S. W. (Eds.). (2011). Incentives and test-based accountability in education. Washington: National Academies Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Johnson, D. C. (2011). Critical discourse analysis and the ethnography of language policy. Critical Discourse Studies, 8(4), 267–279.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • McCarty, T. (2011). Introducing ethnography and language policy. In T. McCarty (Ed.), Ethnography and language policy (pp. 1–28). New York: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Moore, H. (2002). “Who will guard the guardians themselves?” National interest versus factional corruption in policymaking for ESL in Australia. In J. W. Tollefson (Ed.), Language policies in education: Critical issues (1st ed., pp. 111–135). New York: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Scheufele, D. A., & Iyengar, S. (2011). The state of framing research: A call for new directions. http://pcl.stanford.edu/research/2011/scheufele-framing.pdf.

  • Spolsky, B. (2008). Introduction: What is educational linguistics? In B. Spolsky & F. Hult (Eds.), The handbook of educational linguistics (pp. 1–9). Malden, MA: Blackwell.

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • Stritikus, T. T., & Garcia, E. (2003). The role of theory and policy in the educational treatment of language minority students: Competitive structures in California. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 11(26), 1–30.

  • Taylor, M. C. (2010). Crisis on campus: A bold plan for reforming our colleges and universities. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

    Google Scholar 

  • Thomas B. Fordham Foundation. (1999). The quest for better teachers: Grading the states. Washington: Author.

    Google Scholar 

  • Tollefson, J. W. (1988). Covert policy in the United States refugee program in Southeast Asia. Language Problems and Language Planning, 12(1), 30–43.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Tollefson, J. W. (2014). Language policy-making in multilingual education: Mass media and the framing of medium of instruction. Current Issues in Language Planning 15(4). Available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14664208.2014.947018.

  • van Dijk, T. (1996). Discourse, power and access. In C. R. Caldas-Coulthard & M. Coulthard (Eds.), Texts and practices: Readings in critical discourse analysis (pp. 84–105). London: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Wodak, R., & Meyer, M. (2009). Critical discourse analysis: History, agenda, theory and methodology. In R. Wodak & M. Meyer (Eds.), Methods of critical discourse analysis (2nd ed., pp. 1–33). London: Sage.

    Google Scholar 

  • Yamagami, M. (2012). The political discourse of the campaign against bilingual education: From Proposition 227 to Horne v. Flores. International Multilingual Research Journal, 6, 143–159.

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Corresponding author

Correspondence to James W. Tollefson.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Tollefson, J.W. Language education policy in late modernity: insights from situated approaches—commentary. Lang Policy 14, 183–189 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10993-014-9353-8

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10993-014-9353-8

Keywords

Navigation