Liddicoat, Anthony (2018) Constraints on agency in micro-language policy and planning in schools : a case study of curriculum change. In: Bouchard, Jeremie and Glasgow, Gregory Paul , (eds.) Agency in Language Policy and Planning : Critical Inquiries. Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism . New York ; London: CRC Press : Routledge , pp. 149-170. ISBN 9781138316188
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Abstract
In studies of language policy and planning (LPP) in schools, agency has often been understood in terms of how the impact of teachers, students and parents influence the implementation of top - down macro - LPP or of the ways that community stakeholders generate LPP from below (Wiley & García, 2016). Such studies have emphasised the agency of various school community actors in shaping LPP in their local context (Alexander, 1992). This chapter will consider the question of agency from the perspective of the school as an ecological context in which actors claim agency in school - based LPP and explore the ways that the local ecology has an impact on, and constrains possibilities for, exercising agency. It will do this by examining the process of a school - initiated curriculum change to increase time for the study of foreign languages in a particular school as a case study of teachers ’ agency in changing a schools ’ LPP. It will investigate the ecology of forces that influenced the exercise of the language teachers’ agency as language planners within the school and the ways that this ecology of forces constrained their agentive possibilities. It will consider in particular the impacts of prevailing ideologies of education and the place of language study within education, conceptualisations of curriculum as a cultural artefact, structural features of school organisation, and professional relationships between teachers of different disciplines. As the language teachers worked to design and implement the new curriculum, these forces worked in different ways to constrain their possibilities for acting and ultimately led to the failure of the initiative.
| Item Type: | Book Item |
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| Subjects: | L Education > LC Special aspects of education |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics |
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Educational change -- Case studies, Language and languages -- Study and teaching -- Case studies, Language teachers -- Case studies |
| Series Name: | Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism |
| Publisher: | CRC Press : Routledge |
| Place of Publication: | New York ; London |
| ISBN: | 9781138316188 |
| Book Title: | Agency in Language Policy and Planning : Critical Inquiries |
| Editor: | Bouchard, Jeremie and Glasgow, Gregory Paul |
| Official Date: | 11 December 2018 |
| Dates: | Date Event 11 December 2018 Published |
| Number of Pages: | 310 |
| Page Range: | pp. 149-170 |
| Status: | Peer Reviewed |
| Publication Status: | Published |
| Re-use Statement: | This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Agency in Language Policy and Planning : Critical Inquiries on 11/12/2018, available online: http://www.routledge.com/Agency-in-Language-Policy-and-Planning-Critical-Inquiries/Bouchard-Glasgow/p/book/9781138316188 |
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 15 January 2019 |
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 11 July 2020 |
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| URI: | https://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/112756/ |
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