Engaged Language Policy and Practices - Paperback

by Kathryn A. Davis (Author), Prem Phyak (Author)

Engaging Language Policy and Practices re-envisions language policy and planning as an engaged approach, drawing on and portraying theoretical and educational equity perspectives. Through ethnographic studies based in Nepal and Hawai i and by depicting ways in which engaged language policy embodies the intersection of critical inquiry, participant involvement, and ongoing engaged language planning processes, this text offers an alternative to the traditional top-down approach to language education policy making. Engaging Language Policy and Practices is an ideal main or supplementary text for graduate courses in language policy and planning.

Author Biography

Kathryn A. Davis is Professor of Language Policies and Practices at the University of Hawai'i, USA. She is on the editorial board of the Journal of Language, Identity, and Education.

Prem Phyak is Lecturer at the Department of English Education at Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Nepal.