Multilingual Education in South Asia

<p>Spanning scholarly contributions from India Nepal Bangladesh Pakistan and Sri Lanka this edited volume seeks to capture and elucidate the distinct challenges approaches and possible solutions associated with interpreting adapting and applying language-in-education policies in a range of linguistically complex teaching and learning environments across South Asia. Centring on-the-ground perspectives of scholars practitioners pupils parents and the larger community the volume offers new insights into one of the most complex populous and diverse multilingual educational contexts in the world. </p><p>Language-in-education policies and practices within this setting represent particularly high stakes issues playing a pivotal role in determining access to literacy thereby forming a critical pivot in the reproduction of educational inequality. The broad aim of the collection is thus to highlight the pedagogical practical ideological and identity-related implications arising from current language-in-education policies in this region with the aim of illustrating how systemic inequality is intertwined with such policies and their associated interpretations.</p><p>Aimed at both academics and practitioners - whether researchers and students in the fields of education linguistics sociology anthropology or South Asian studies on the one hand or language policy advisors curriculum developers teacher educators teachers and members of funding bodies aid providers or NGOs on the other - it is anticipated that the accounts in this volume will offer their readership opportunities to consider their wider implications and applications across other rich multilingual settings – be these local regional national or global.</p>