This collection of case studies examines how struggles for equality unfold in policies, programmes, and practices in educational settings in multicultural contexts.

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.

Symbolic Domination, Education and Linguistic Difference, Monica Heller &
Marilyn Martin-Jones
Constructing Legitimate Language - Ritualization and Safetalk
Co-Constructing School Safetime - Safetalk Practices in Peruvian and South African Classrooms, Nancy Hornberger &
Keith Chick
Codeswitching and Collusion - Classroom Interaction in Botswana Primary Schools, Jo Arthur
Language and Educational Inequality in Primary Classrooms in Kenya, Brace Bunyi
The Contradictions of Teaching Bilingually in Post-Colonial Burundi, Lin Ndayipfukamiye
Turn-Taking and the Positioning of Bilingual Participants in Classroom Discourse in British Primary Schools, Marilyn Martin-Jones &
Mukul Saxena
Symbolic Domination and Codeswitching in Hong Kong Secondary Schools, Angel Lin
Coping With Contradiction and Creating Ambiguity
"Like You Are Living Two Lives in One Go" - Negotiating Different Social Conditions for Classroom Learning (in a Further Education Context in Britain), Celia Roberts &
Srikant Sarangi
Constructing Hybrid Post-Colonial Subjects - Codeswitching in Jaffna Classrooms, Suresh Canagarajah
Language Values and Identities - Codeswitching in Secondary Classrooms in Malta, Antoinette Camilleri
Classroom Interaction and the Bilingual Resources of Migrant Students in Switzerland, Lorenza Mondada &
Laurent Gajol
Authority and Authenticity - Corsican Discourse on Bilingual Education, Alexandra Jaffe
Language of State and Social Categorization in an Artic Quebec Community, Donna Patrick
Contestation and Struggle
Collusion, Resistance and Reflexivity - Indigenous Teacher Views in Assessing ESL Development in Australia, Helen Moore
Legitimate Language in a Franco-Ontarian School, Monica Heller
Youth, Race and Resistance in Multilingual Britain - A Sociolinguistic Perspective, Ben Rampton
Conclusion - Education in Multilingual Settings - States, Conditions and Consequences.