Commentary on the special issue “Language policies and practices in early childhood education: perspectives across European Migration Societies”. Agency in language policies and practices: a response to multilingual early childhood education and care

IF 2 1区文学 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

International Journal of Multilingualism Pub Date : 2023-09-28 DOI:10.1080/14790718.2023.2262351

Edina Krompák

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ABSTRACTThis commentary discusses the theoretical and methodological issues highlighted by the special issue ‘Language Policies and Practices in Early Childhood Education: Perspectives across European Migration Societies’. A systematic review of the seven contributions in this special issue makes evident the concept of agency. Consequently, this commentary introduces agency in language policy and planning with a focus on multilingual early childhood education and care, and discusses how this concept emerged from the theoretical background and its presence in the interpretation of results, as well as how it unfolds in different contexts. This is followed by a reflection on the continuities and discontinuities in the ethnographic approaches employed. To address agency in early childhood education and care in more depth, a model of agency will be introduced. Lastly, future directions for participatory approaches in ethnography and advocacy will be discussed as new avenues for the investigation of language policy and practice.KEYWORDS: Agencyearly childhood education and carelanguage policyethnographic approachadvocacy Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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对特刊“幼儿教育中的语言政策和做法:欧洲各移民社会的观点”的评论。语言政策和实践中的机构:对多语种幼儿教育和护理的回应

摘要本文讨论了“早期儿童教育中的语言政策和实践:欧洲移民社会的视角”特刊所强调的理论和方法问题。对本期特刊的七篇文章进行系统的审查，可以清楚地看到机构的概念。因此，这篇评论介绍了语言政策和规划中的代理，重点关注多语种幼儿教育和护理，并讨论了这一概念是如何从理论背景中产生的，它在结果解释中的存在，以及它如何在不同的背景下展开。接下来是对所采用的人种学方法的连续性和不连续性的反思。为了更深入地探讨幼儿教育和保育中的能动性，本文将引入一个能动性模型。最后，将讨论民族志和倡导的参与性方法的未来方向，作为研究语言政策和实践的新途径。关键词:机构，儿童教育和护理，语言政策，人种学方法，倡导，公开声明作者未报告潜在的利益冲突。

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期刊介绍： The aim of the International Journal of Multilingualism (IJM) is to foster, present and spread research focused on psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic and educational aspects of multilingual acquisition and multilingualism. The journal is interdisciplinary and seeks to go beyond bilingualism and second language acquisition by developing the understanding of the specific characteristics of acquiring, processing and using more than two languages. The International Journal of Multilingualism (IJM) provides a forum wherein academics, researchers and practitioners may read and publish high-quality, original and state-of-the-art papers describing theoretical and empirical aspects that can contribute to advance our understanding of multilingualism.Topics of interest to IJM include, but are not limited to the following: early trilingualism, multilingual competence, foreign language learning within bilingual education, multilingual literacy, multilingual identity, metalinguistic awareness in multilinguals, multilingual representations in the mind or language use in multilingual communities. The editors encourage the submission of high quality papers on these areas as well as on other topics relevant to the interest of the International Journal Multilingualism (IJM). Reviews of important, up-to-date, relevant publications and proposals for special issues on relevant topics are also welcome.