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  title info:
    title: Community Based Research in Language Policy and Planning
    sub title: The Language of Instruction in Education in Sint Eustatius
  name:
    name part: Faraclas, Nicholas.
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      role term: creator
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  name:
    name part: Kester, Ellen-Petra.
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      role term: author.
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  name:
    name part: Mijts, Eric.
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      role term: author.
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  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VIII, 195 p. 13 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This volume focuses on a case where community organizing, academic research and governmental responsibility were successfully mobilized and synchronized to bring about change in educational policy and practice. The focus of this book is the methodology implemented and the results obtained over the course of a year-long action research project on language and education in St. Eustatius, one of the islands of the Dutch Caribbean, commissioned by the educational authorities in both St. Eustatius and the European Netherlands. On the island, the language of instruction is Dutch, however, outside of the classroom most students only speak English and an English-lexifier Creole. The research project was set up to address the negative impact on school success of this disparity. It included a community-based sociolinguistic study that actively involved all of the stakeholders in the education system on the island. This was complemented by a multi-pronged set of research strategies, including a language attitude and use survey, a narrative proficiency test, in depth interviews, and a review of the relevant literature. The resulting report and recommendations were accepted by the government, which is now in the process of changing the language of instruction.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Community Based Research in Postcolonial Communities -- Project Background: Language Policy and Language Endangerment in the Caribbean: The Language of Instruction in Statia 2012-2014 -- Literature Review, Survey, Narrative Proficiency Test, Focus Group Sessions, Interviews and Classroom Observations -- The Recommendations: Reactions and Impementation -- Conclusions -- Literature.
  note: by Nicholas Faraclas, Ellen-Petra Kester, Eric Mijts.
  subject:
    topic: Educational policy
  subject:
    topic: Education and state
  subject:
    topic: Language policy
  subject:
    topic: Educational Policy and Politics
  subject:
    topic: Language Policy and Planning
  subject:
    topic: Education Policy
  classification: LC8-6691
  classification: 379
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Language Policy, 20
  identifier: 9783030232238
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23223-8
  record info:
    record creation date: 190723
    record change date: 20191028121251.0
    record identifier: 978-3-030-23223-8