Sociological Realism and Language Policy Analysis: A Way Forward

Autor/in	Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi
Titel	Sociological Realism and Language Policy Analysis: A Way Forward
Quelle	In: Current Issues in Language Planning, 20 (2019) 3, S.309-330 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1747-7506
DOI	10.1080/14664208.2018.1520472
Schlagwörter	Language Planning; Policy Analysis; Ethnography; Social Theories; Kindergarten; Preschool Education; Educational Policy; Ethnic Groups; Indo European Languages; Language of Instruction; Principals; Administrator Attitudes; Language Minorities; Turkic Languages; Teacher Attitudes; Second Languages; Foreign Countries; Iran + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachwechsel; Politikfeldanalyse; Ethnografie; Gesellschaftstheorie; Pre-school education; Vorschulerziehung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Ethnie; Indoeuropäisch; Teaching language; Unterrichtssprache; Principal; Schulleiter; Sprachminderheit; Turkish; Türkisch; Lehrerverhalten; Second language; Zweitsprache; Ausland
Abstract	Language planning and policy has evolved from considering policy as one of states' affairs at its early stages to how policy actors exercise their agency to appropriate and enact policy in micro and local contexts. Ethnography of language policy is predominantly used today to explore why policies are enacted in a certain way and not otherwise, shedding light on policy actors' ideologies and their role in bringing about specific consequences. This article engages with the ethnographic approaches to language policy studies from the perspective of sociological realism. It argues that grounding ethnographic studies in realist social theory can not only accommodate recent developments in the field but also further our understanding of how policy actors' agency is informed by factors from other strata of the society which could go unnoticed in ethnography of language policy. To illustrate, the case of policy enactment in kindergartens and preschools in Tabriz is presented. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01