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Language Orientations in Early Childhood Education Policy in Finland and Norway
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Alstad, Gunhild Tomter; Sopanen, Pauliina – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2021
This article investigates the language orientations in education policy documents for early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Finland and Norway. Finland, an officially bilingual country, and Norway, a predominantly monolingual country, share similar views on ECEC. However, the ECEC field in both countries has undergone major changes in…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Policy, Child Care, Cross Cultural Studies
'We Are Two Languages Here.' The Operation of Language Policies through Spatial Ideologies and Practices in a Co-Located and a Bilingual School
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From, Tuuli – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2020
Institutional education traditionally entails a premise of language separation. This article aims to analyse language management through spatial ideologies and practices as interconnected manifestations of language policies. Informed by post-structural theorisation, the analysis draws on ethnographic data produced at a co-located campus of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Schools, Language Planning, Finno Ugric Languages, Swedish
Language Policy as 'Frozen' Ideology: Exploring the Administrative Function in Swedish Higher Education
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Karlsson, Susanna; Karlsson, Tom S. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2020
This article examines Language Policy documents within higher education institutions in Sweden. Its main focus is on how national language policies and policies for internationalization of the higher education are reinterpreted as local language policy. The analysis of ideologies surrounding the prescribed language(s) in meetings of decision…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Swedish
Parental Discourses of Language Ideology and Linguistic Identity in Multilingual Finland
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Palviainen, Åsa; Bergroth, Mari – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2018
Finland is officially a bilingual country but it is in practice multilingual. In the current study, we examined how mothers and fathers of mixed-language families linguistically identified themselves and others, and how ideological discourses and concepts historically and socially situated in Finland circulated through the parents' talk. The…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language Attitudes, Self Concept, Finno Ugric Languages
Children's Beliefs about Bilingualism and Language Use as Expressed in Child-Adult Conversations
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Almér, Elin – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2017
The aim of this article is to describe young children's beliefs about language and bilingualism as they are expressed in verbal utterances. The data is from Swedish-medium preschool units in three different sites in Finland. It was generated through ethnographic observations and recordings of the author's interactions with the children. The…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Language Usage, Swedish, Language of Instruction
Why Aren't All Children in the Nordic Countries Bilingual?
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Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1984
Examines three Nordic bilingual programs: (1) immersion, where majority children with a high status mother tongue learn a second language; (2) submersion, where minority children with a low status mother tongue are forced to learn the majority language; and (3) language shelter, where minority children learn the majority language as a second…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Bilingualism, Finnish, Immersion Programs