Title: Australian policy activism in language and literacy /
Authors: Lo Bianco, Joseph.; Wickert, Rosie, 1945-
Publisher: Language Australia,
Year: 2001
Subjects: Language policy Australia.; Language planning Australia.; Literacy programs Australia.
Abstract: Summary: describes how policy texts come about, how policy activists learn to become effective in influence and text production, how policy problems are constituted and what happens in different policy contexts. Concludes with new theories, perspectives and possibilities.
Contents: 1. From policy to anti-policy: how fear of language rights took policy-making out of community hands / Joseph Lo Bianco -- 2. Australia's language / Paul Brock -- 3. Politics, activism and processes of policy production: adult literacy in Australia / Rosie Wickert -- 4. Although it wasn't broken, it certainly was fixed: interventions in the Australian Adult Migrant English Program 1991-1996 / Helen Moore -- 5. Advocating the sustainability of linguistic diversity / Michael Singh -- 6. The cost of literacy for some / Anthea Taylor -- 7. (E)merging discourses at work: bringing together new and old ways to account for workplace literacy policy / Geraldine Castleton -- 8. The melody changes but the dance goes on - tracking adult literacy education in Western Australia from 'learning for life' to 'lifelong learning': policy impacts on practice 1973-1999 / Margaret McHugh, Jennifer Nevard and Anthea Taylor -- 9. Sleight of hand: job myths, literacy and social capital / Ian Falk -- 10. National literacy benchmarks and the outstreaming of ESL learners / Penny McKay -- 11. Open for business: the market, the state and adult literacy in Australia up to and beyond 2000 / Peter Kell -- 12. Inventiveness and regression: interpreting/translating and the vicissitudes of Australian language policy / Uldis Ozolins -- 13. Deafness and sign language in government policy documents 1983-1990 / Des Power -- 14. Imprisoned by a landmark narrative? Student/teacher ratios and the making of policy / Merilyn Childs -- 15. Ideologies, languages, policies: Australia's ambivalent relationship with learning to communicate in 'other' languages / Angela Scarino and Leo Papademetre -- 16. Reconciled to what? Reconciliation and the Norther Territory's bilingual education program, 1973-1998 / Christine Nicholls -- 17. Sing out that song: the textual activities of social technologies in an Aboriginal community / Jack Frawley.