Naz Rassool
Biographic Data
| ID | 1260795 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Naz Rassool |
| GIVEN NAMES | Naz |
| FAMILY NAME | Rassool |
| SIGNATURE | RASSOOL N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Developing government policies for distance education
Considering heteroglossia in language and development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Countries throughout the Sub-Saharan (SSA) region have a complex linguistic heritage having their origins in opportunistic boundary changes effected by Western colonial powers at the Berlin Conference 1884–1885. Postcolonial language-in-education policies valorizing ex-colonial languages have contributed at least in part to underachievement in education and thus the underdevelopment of human resources in SSA countries. This situation is not likel…
Paradigm issues
by Paul Gilroy, London and New York, Routledge, 2004, 389 pp., £15.99 (paperback), ISBN 0‐41‐534365‐8 by Paul Gilroy, London and New York: Routledge, 2006, 183 pp., £15.99 (paperback), ISBN 0‐41‐53
Language and Development in Multilingual Settings
Sustaining linguistic diversity within the global cultural economy
This paper draws on ethnographic case‐study research conducted amongst a group of first and second generation immigrant children in six inner‐city schools in London. It focuses on language attitudes and language choice in relation to cultural maintenance, on the one hand, and career aspirations on the other. It seeks to provide insight into some of the experiences and dilemmatic choices encountered and negotiations engaged in by transmigratory gr…
Deconstructing 'Standards' in Education
(2002). Deconstructing 'Standards' in Education. British Journal of Sociology of Education: Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 135-140
School Effectiveness and the Displacement of Equity Discourses in Education
An essential aspect of school effectiveness theory is the shift from the social to the organisational context, from the macro- to the micro-culture. The school is represented largely as a bounded institution, set apart, but also in a precarious relationship with the broader social context. It is ironic that at a time when social disadvantage appears to be increasing in Britain and elsewhere, school effectiveness theory places less emphasis on pov…
School effectiveness
School effectiveness is a microtechnology of change. It is a relay device, which transfers macro policy into everyday processes and priorities in schools. It is part of the growing apparatus of performance evaluation. Change is brought about by a focus on the school as a site-based system to be managed. There has been corporate restructuring in response to the changing political economy of education. There are now new work regimes and radical cha…
Contested and Contesting Identities
This paper juxtaposes postmodernist discourses on language, identity and cultural power with historical forms of language inequalities grounded in the nation-state. The discussion is presented in three sections. The first section focuses on the mixed legacies of language-state relations within the pluralist nation-state, colonial and postcolonial language policies. The second section examines the concept of linguistic minority rights beyond the n…
Nationalisms Old and New
Nationalism is a collection of papers from the British Sociological Association conference, Worlds of the Future. The central themes of the conference were ethnicity and nationalism in the contemporar
Literacy for Sustainable Development in the Age of Information
The book provides a critical overview of the literacy debate in academic and general educational discourse; the role of functional literacy in societal development programmes during the past two decades; and a critical evaluation of the issues that surround literacy in an increasingly computer-dominated world
Flexible Identities
This paper explores, through the life histories of a group of first and second generation immigrant pupils from the 'Asian' and 'African' diasporas, the complex ways in which 'black' identities have evolved in British society over the past two decades. The phrase 'black identities' is used here not as a racially descriptive term but rather as a signifier of ethnic 'otherness'; to make distinct (from white society) and, at the same time, to unify …
Literacy and social development in the information age
Postmodernity, cultural pluralism and the nation-state
Theorizing literacy, politics and social process
Language, cultural pluralism and the silencing of minority discourses in England and Wales
This paper locates the ethnic minority language issue within the broader context of national language policy within the pluralist nation‐state. It is divided into three sections. Section one provides an historical overview of the second language ‘debate’ in England and Wales during the past three decades and discusses it within the absence of a coherent national language policy framework. Section two draws on ethnographic case‐study material obta…
Post‐Fordism? Technology and Mew Forms of Control
Technology is changing not only our material reality, but also our social roles and power positions within the social structure. Whilst its increasingly widespread applications in industry, on the one hand, facilitate production processes they also contribute to the marginalisation and displacement of particular groups of people within the labour force (Sivanandan, 1989; Pollert, 1988). Thus, technology can “embody specific forms of power and aut…
Flexible Identities
This paper explores, through the life histories of a group of first and second generation immigrant pupils from the 'Asian' and 'African' diasporas, the complex ways in which 'black' identities have evolved in British society over the past two decades. The phrase 'black identities' is used here not as a racially descriptive term but rather as a signifier of ethnic 'otherness'; to make distinct (from white society) and, at the same time, to unify …
School Effectiveness and the Displacement of Equity Discourses in Education
An essential aspect of school effectiveness theory is the shift from the social to the organisational context, from the macro- to the micro-culture. The school is represented largely as a bounded institution, set apart, but also in a precarious relationship with the broader social context. It is ironic that at a time when social disadvantage appears to be increasing in Britain and elsewhere, school effectiveness theory places less emphasis on pov…
Sustaining linguistic diversity within the global cultural economy
This paper draws on ethnographic case‐study research conducted amongst a group of first and second generation immigrant children in six inner‐city schools in London. It focuses on language attitudes and language choice in relation to cultural maintenance, on the one hand, and career aspirations on the other. It seeks to provide insight into some of the experiences and dilemmatic choices encountered and negotiations engaged in by transmigratory gr…
School effectiveness
School effectiveness is a microtechnology of change. It is a relay device, which transfers macro policy into everyday processes and priorities in schools. It is part of the growing apparatus of performance evaluation. Change is brought about by a focus on the school as a site-based system to be managed. There has been corporate restructuring in response to the changing political economy of education. There are now new work regimes and radical cha…
Language and Development in Multilingual Settings
Postmodernity, cultural pluralism and the nation-state
Post‐Fordism? Technology and Mew Forms of Control
Technology is changing not only our material reality, but also our social roles and power positions within the social structure. Whilst its increasingly widespread applications in industry, on the one hand, facilitate production processes they also contribute to the marginalisation and displacement of particular groups of people within the labour force (Sivanandan, 1989; Pollert, 1988). Thus, technology can “embody specific forms of power and aut…
Theorizing literacy, politics and social process
Language, cultural pluralism and the silencing of minority discourses in England and Wales
This paper locates the ethnic minority language issue within the broader context of national language policy within the pluralist nation‐state. It is divided into three sections. Section one provides an historical overview of the second language ‘debate’ in England and Wales during the past three decades and discusses it within the absence of a coherent national language policy framework. Section two draws on ethnographic case‐study material obta…
Post‐Fordism? Technology and Mew Forms of Control
Technology is changing not only our material reality, but also our social roles and power positions within the social structure. Whilst its increasingly widespread applications in industry, on the one hand, facilitate production processes they also contribute to the marginalisation and displacement of particular groups of people within the labour force (Sivanandan, 1989; Pollert, 1988). Thus, technology can “embody specific forms of power and aut…
Theorizing literacy, politics and social process
Language, cultural pluralism and the silencing of minority discourses in England and Wales
This paper locates the ethnic minority language issue within the broader context of national language policy within the pluralist nation‐state. It is divided into three sections. Section one provides an historical overview of the second language ‘debate’ in England and Wales during the past three decades and discusses it within the absence of a coherent national language policy framework. Section two draws on ethnographic case‐study material obta…
Postmodernity, cultural pluralism and the nation-state
Nationalisms Old and New
Nationalism is a collection of papers from the British Sociological Association conference, Worlds of the Future. The central themes of the conference were ethnicity and nationalism in the contemporar
Literacy for Sustainable Development in the Age of Information
The book provides a critical overview of the literacy debate in academic and general educational discourse; the role of functional literacy in societal development programmes during the past two decades; and a critical evaluation of the issues that surround literacy in an increasingly computer-dominated world
Flexible Identities
This paper explores, through the life histories of a group of first and second generation immigrant pupils from the 'Asian' and 'African' diasporas, the complex ways in which 'black' identities have evolved in British society over the past two decades. The phrase 'black identities' is used here not as a racially descriptive term but rather as a signifier of ethnic 'otherness'; to make distinct (from white society) and, at the same time, to unify …
Literacy and social development in the information age
School Effectiveness and the Displacement of Equity Discourses in Education
An essential aspect of school effectiveness theory is the shift from the social to the organisational context, from the macro- to the micro-culture. The school is represented largely as a bounded institution, set apart, but also in a precarious relationship with the broader social context. It is ironic that at a time when social disadvantage appears to be increasing in Britain and elsewhere, school effectiveness theory places less emphasis on pov…
School effectiveness
School effectiveness is a microtechnology of change. It is a relay device, which transfers macro policy into everyday processes and priorities in schools. It is part of the growing apparatus of performance evaluation. Change is brought about by a focus on the school as a site-based system to be managed. There has been corporate restructuring in response to the changing political economy of education. There are now new work regimes and radical cha…
Contested and Contesting Identities
This paper juxtaposes postmodernist discourses on language, identity and cultural power with historical forms of language inequalities grounded in the nation-state. The discussion is presented in three sections. The first section focuses on the mixed legacies of language-state relations within the pluralist nation-state, colonial and postcolonial language policies. The second section examines the concept of linguistic minority rights beyond the n…
Deconstructing 'Standards' in Education
(2002). Deconstructing 'Standards' in Education. British Journal of Sociology of Education: Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 135-140
Sustaining linguistic diversity within the global cultural economy
This paper draws on ethnographic case‐study research conducted amongst a group of first and second generation immigrant children in six inner‐city schools in London. It focuses on language attitudes and language choice in relation to cultural maintenance, on the one hand, and career aspirations on the other. It seeks to provide insight into some of the experiences and dilemmatic choices encountered and negotiations engaged in by transmigratory gr…
Language and Development in Multilingual Settings
Paradigm issues
by Paul Gilroy, London and New York, Routledge, 2004, 389 pp., £15.99 (paperback), ISBN 0‐41‐534365‐8 by Paul Gilroy, London and New York: Routledge, 2006, 183 pp., £15.99 (paperback), ISBN 0‐41‐53
Developing government policies for distance education
Considering heteroglossia in language and development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Countries throughout the Sub-Saharan (SSA) region have a complex linguistic heritage having their origins in opportunistic boundary changes effected by Western colonial powers at the Berlin Conference 1884–1885. Postcolonial language-in-education policies valorizing ex-colonial languages have contributed at least in part to underachievement in education and thus the underdevelopment of human resources in SSA countries. This situation is not likel…
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (14 works) · Pedagogy (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works)