When language becomes power
Russian-speaking teachers in the bilingual general education system in Estonia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11166350 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tatjana Kiilo (University of Tartu, corresponding author), Dagmar Kutsar (0000-0003-1320-3344, University of Tartu) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 245-262 |
| Publication date | 2012-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Sociology of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0142-5692 • E-ISSN: 1465-3346 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01425692.2011.649834 |
| OpenAlex | W2061096476 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 23 |
After the re-establishment of independent Estonian statehood in 1991, Russian lost its privileges as the dominant and official language in Estonia, and Estonian continued as the only official language. This paper attempts to map the position of a Russian-speaking teacher within the sociological categories of power and language, based on the analysis of legislative acts and strategic documents within the domain of language policy and language legitimization practices in historical retrospective. The main focus of the study stresses an attempt to elaborate on to what extent the low self-efficacy of Russian-speaking teachers as the agents of legitimization of the Estonian language in Russian-speaking schools, and their low position in power relations within the Estonian education system, can be explained in the categories of power and language, as conceptualized on the basis of the social theory of Bourdieu
Economics · Estonian · Focus (optics · Language education · Language policy · Legislature · Linguistics · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Position (finance · Power (physics · Power structure · Russian language · Sociology · Symbolic power · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Law · Multilingual Education and Policy
Power
Self-Efficacy in Changing Societies
Teacher Identity as Pedagogy
Decolonisation, Globalisation
Ethnicity without groups
Power
Nationalism Reframed
Understanding the empowerment process
Language Politics and Practices in the Baltic States
Rethinking Empowerment Theory Using a Feminist Lens
Complying with European standards of minority education
Two waves of language laws in the Baltic states
The language situation in Estonia
Russians as the New Minority
Russia and Its New Diasporas
Russians beyond Russia
Russians in the former Soviet republics
Culture, state, and security in Europe
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,38 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |