Overcoming Colonial Policies of Divide and Rule: Postcolonialism's Harnessing of the Vernaculars

Autor/in	Ramanathan, Vaidehi
Titel	Overcoming Colonial Policies of Divide and Rule: Postcolonialism's Harnessing of the Vernaculars
Quelle	In: Review of Research in Education, 38 (2014) 1, S.290-311 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0091-732X
DOI	10.3102/0091732X13511049
Schlagwörter	English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Language Variation; Foreign Countries; Foreign Policy; Educational Policy; Applied Linguistics; Language Planning; Literacy; Language of Instruction; Equal Education; Informal Education; Indo European Languages; Textbook Content; Elementary Secondary Education; Service Learning; Ideology; Citizen Participation; India + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Sprachenvielfalt; Ausland; Außenpolitik; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Linguistics; Linguistik; Angewandte Linguistik; Sprachwechsel; Alphabetisierung; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit; Teaching language; Unterrichtssprache; Informelle Bildung; Nichtformale Bildung; Indoeuropäisch; Lehrbuchtext; Service-Learning; Ideologie; 'Citizen participation; Citizens'' participation'; Bürgerbeteiligung; Indien
Abstract	This chapter offers a situated account of English and vernacular literacy practices from a postcolonial perspective. Situated in ongoing endeavors in a variety of local contexts in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, where the author was raised and schooled, this chapter calls attention to some key educational sites through which these policy-related inequities are reproduced, and some ways in which individual teachers and institutions assume the responsibility to make conditions more just and equal. The chapter concludes with a discussion of how a postcolonial research framework allows one to understand not only grounded inequities around language policies in terms of historical colonial pasts, but also how fellow humans draw on particular rationalizations to harness the vernaculars and work toward moving all to more equal footings. This article seeks first to define postcolonial framework, and then, secondly, to determine the ways that postcolonial framework informs English and vernacular debates in applied linguistics. (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10