<div><br clear="all">Language and Education in Japan: Unequal Access to Bilingualism <br>Series: Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities <br>Published: 2008 <br>Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan<br> <a href="http://www.palgrave.com/">http://www.palgrave.com </a><br>
<br>Book URL: <a href="http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=277173">http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=277173 </a><br><br>Author: Yasuko Kanno <br>Hardback: ISBN: 9780230506947 Pages: 224 Price: U.K. £ 45.00<br>
Abstract:<br><br>In this first critical ethnography of bilingual education in Japan, Yasuko <br>Kanno examines the relationship between school education and inequality of <br>access to bilingualism. She provides detailed and vivid accounts of the <br>
lived experiences of teachers, students and parents at five schools in <br>Japan: an immersion school, a Chinese ethnic school, an international <br>school, and two state/'public' schools. Drawing on the concept of imagined <br>
communities, Yasuko Kanno argues that schools provide unequal access to <br>bilingualism by envisioning different imagined communities for students of <br>different socioeconomic classes and socializing them into these stratified <br>
imagined communities. While additive bilingualism in two socially <br>prestigious languages is aggressively promoted for upper-middle-class <br>students, immigrant and refugee children are subtly coerced into replacing <br>
their first language with society's dominant language. </div>
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