Book: Australia language & literacy policy

[McGinnis, Scott]

Australian Policy Activism in Language and Literacy
P R I C E: $ 49 .50
Edited by:
Joseph Lo Bianco & Rosie Wickert
Published by: Language Australia, 2001
ISBN: 1 876768 31 2
 
Language and literacy policy development in Australia boasts a long
history of strategic alliances, and in recent decades, more than 15
major public policies, position statements and significant programs
directing public resources towards language and literacy goals have been
released. Australian Policy Activism in Language and Literacy presents
the dynamics of language and literacy policy activism in Australia by
capturing accounts of many of those most deeply engaged in Australia's
distinctive practice of language and literacy policy-making and its
effects. The book 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. The book concludes with new theories, perspectives and
possibilities.
 
Joseph Lo Bianco is Director of Language Australia and Professor,
Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne. His research interests
are language policy and planning, multilingualism and bilingualism in
social context, language and conflict, and literacy policy. He is the
author of Australia's National Policy on Languages (1987). During 1999
he wrote the National Language Education Policy for Sri Lanka under
World Bank financing, and in 2000 he was a commissioned adviser on
language education policy in Scotland and Northern Ireland. He was
awarded the Order of Australia for his work on language policy in
Australia and internationally.
 
Rosie Wickert is an Associate Professor at the University of Technology,
Sydney. She has been active in the field of adult basic education for 20
years and has acted in a consultative capacity to government departments
and at UNESCO and OECD Expert meetings. She was foundation Chair of the
Australian Literacy Federation and has been President of the Australian
Council for Adult Literacy and the NSW Council for Adult Literacy and
Numeracy.
 
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Language Australia
 
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