This edited volume consists of chapters celebrating the career of scholar Sjaak Kroon, who has produced ground-breaking work in the field of ethnography of education, immigrant minority language teaching and language politics. The chapters cover the use of immigrant minority languages in education and the development of policies at all levels and across the globe in this sometimes over-policed field. It particularly focuses on language policy analysis in which both the top-down institutional and the bottom-up ethnographic dimensions are blended, and in which globalization is the main macro-perspective. The chapters describe sensitive tools for investigating, unravelling and understanding the grey space connecting formal language policies to informal politics and practices of language on the ground.
1. Introduction to Language Policies and the Politics of Language
Practices.-
2. Sociolinguistic re-stratification in the online-offline nexus:
Trumps viral errors.-
3. L2 learning while doing togetherness on You Tube:
Exploring the role of a socio-technological platform in an asylum seeking
centre.-
4. Colonial and Missionary Contributions in Tigrinya Reading
Instruction in Eritrea.-
5. The Cuban literacy programme in Timor-Leste:
magic on the blackboard.-
6. Assessing Multilingualism at School.-
7.
Creating Quarter for Doing Things with Language.-
8. Teachers in Training and
the Policing of Language Variation.-
9. Preach or practise? Preach and
practice! Sjaak Kroons contributions to language practices and models for
language policy.-
10. Afterword: The Kroonian paradigm: Sjaak Kroons
distinctive style of language work.
