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Multilingual policies as dystopia: From less to more desirable futures in education
Policy Futures in Education Pub Date : 2021-05-23 , DOI: 10.1177/14782103211014024
Sandro R Barros 1, 1 , Darshana Devarajan 1
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In ‘Literature and Life’, Deleuze remarks that all literature manifests as delirium, and, as such, the destiny of literature is to play itself out between two poles that create and reflect life back to itself: what the human desires, and the constant changes life imposes onto us. Taking Deleuze’s statement as a point of departure concerning the power of social fiction, this article mobilizes the dystopian imagination as a tool to evaluate what language policies do as they channel human desire to shape linguistic practices. Specifically, this article explores the extent to which the literary dystopian lens can help us plot more desirable futures for multilingualism in education. Through a critical fabulation about India’s three-language policy’s effects in schools, we bear witness to this language policy’s disciplinarian action, which reinforces linguistic hierarchies and territorial disputes present in this nation’s history. Indeed, decisions on policies meant to assist linguistically minoritized students have often rested on complicated assumptions about what language means. These assumptions operate under liberal and neoliberal ideologies that commodify and narrow citizens’ linguistic choices, thereby framing one’s authority over language as something that exists outside the human mind. By approaching India’s three-language policy as a futuristically fabulated case study, we reflect on the potentiality of dystopian narratives to function as an analytical method and a critical lens to anticipate ethical problems in language policies’ design.



中文翻译:

多语言政策反乌托邦:从教育的欠佳到更理想的未来

德勒兹在《文学与生活》中指出,所有文学作品都表现为del妄,因此,文学作品的命运是在创造和反映生命的两极之间发挥自己的作用:人类的欲望和永恒的事物。改变生活强加给我们。本文以德勒兹(Deleuze)的陈述为出发点,探讨社会小说的力量,动员反乌托邦的想象力作为一种工具,以评估语言政策在传达人类塑造语言实践的欲望时所采取的行动。具体来说,本文探讨了反乌托邦文学的视角在多大程度上可以帮助我们为教育中的多语种规划更加理想的未来。通过对印度的三种语言政策在学校中的影响进行批判性的捏造,我们见证了该语言政策的纪律处分,这加强了该国历史上存在的语言等级制度和领土争端。确实,旨在帮助语言上少数族裔学生的政策决定通常取决于对语言含义的复杂假设。这些假设在自由主义和新自由主义意识形态下运作,这些意识形态使公民的语言选择商品化并缩小了范围,从而将人对语言的权威定性为存在于人脑之外的事物。通过将印度的三语政策作为一个未来主义的案例研究,我们反思了反乌托邦叙事作为分析方法和预测语言政策设计中的道德问题的重要手段的潜力。有关旨在帮助语言上少数族裔学生的政策的决策通常基于关于语言含义的复杂假设。这些假设在自由主义和新自由主义意识形态下运作,这些意识形态使公民的语言选择商品化并缩小了范围,从而将人对语言的权威定性为存在于人脑之外的事物。通过将印度的三语政策作为一个未来主义的案例研究,我们反思了反乌托邦叙事作为分析方法和预测语言政策设计中的道德问题的重要手段的潜力。有关旨在帮助语言上少数族裔学生的政策的决策通常基于关于语言含义的复杂假设。这些假设在自由主义和新自由主义意识形态下运作,这些意识形态使公民的语言选择商品化并缩小了范围,从而将人对语言的权威定性为存在于人脑之外的事物。通过将印度的三语政策作为一个未来主义的案例研究,我们反思了反乌托邦叙事作为分析方法和预测语言政策设计中的道德问题的重要手段的潜力。从而将对语言的权威定性为存在于人类思想之外的事物。通过将印度的三语政策作为一个未来主义的案例研究,我们反思了反乌托邦叙事作为分析方法和预测语言政策设计中的道德问题的重要手段的潜力。从而将对语言的权威定性为存在于人类思想之外的事物。通过将印度的三语政策作为一个未来主义的案例研究,我们反思了反乌托邦叙事作为分析方法和预测语言政策设计中的道德问题的重要手段的潜力。

更新日期:2021-05-24
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