Victory, Fiona Margaret Holman;
(2023)
The changing medium of instruction policies of state-schools in recently formed states: a comparative analysis.
Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).
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In this thesis I analyse changes to the medium of instruction (MOI) policies of primary and secondary schools of new states which gained independence after the end of the Second World War up to 2015. In it I view MOI policies as drivers of linguistic state building, with decisions to use additional languages for teaching and learning being evaluated in terms of the threat that they may pose to the status of official languages and established patterns of social opportunity and status associated with knowledge of them. I develop and use an expanded version of Bourdieu’s theory of the national linguistic market as a conceptual framework to capture the interaction of factors both inside and outside of the state which may influence MOI policy decisions. The existing comparative literature consists mainly of descriptive studies of individual states or geographical regions. My study is distinctive because it focuses on new states and uses a large, longitudinal, sample to provide a global perspective on the choices that new states have made about MOI policies in primary and secondary schools and how these policies have changed. My methodological approach is distinct, using qualitative comparative analysis (QCA), an approach which is currently underutilized in comparative education research, particularly in studies with a temporal component. I develop a novel MOI typology, identifying four distinctive models: Purist (only the state language(s) are used); Pragmatic (community languages are used in primary schooling); Accommodating (high status community languages are used in secondary school); and Opportunistic (new, high status, languages are introduced as MOI). I argue that, whilst Bourdieu’s concept of linguistic markets provides a powerful basis for understanding MOI policy decisions, the interaction of national (internal) linguistic markets with the international (external) linguistic market needs to be considered to fully understand patterns of MOI policy change over time.
| Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
|---|---|
| Qualification: | Ph.D |
| Title: | The changing medium of instruction policies of state-schools in recently formed states: a comparative analysis |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author 2023. Original content in this thesis is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Any third-party copyright material present remains the property of its respective owner(s) and is licensed under its existing terms. Access may initially be restricted at the author’s request. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10176265 |
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