John E Petrovic
Biographic Data
| ID | 455040 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John E Petrovic |
| GIVEN NAMES | John E |
| FAMILY NAME | Petrovic |
| SIGNATURE | PETROVIC J E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alabama |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7425-6285 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Toward a non-economistic understanding of higher education as a public and private good for the public good
This article defines a public good, arguing that higher education should be considered a public good. This requires moving away from an orthodox economistic understanding of public goods. It also requires understanding the relationship between higher education as both a private good and a public good to the extent that it promotes individual flourishing necessary to the public good
Linguistic appropriation and/or dispossession
The Multilingual Citizen
This is a thoughtful and well-organised collection of essays on the politics of language, focusing specifically on linguistic citizenship. Its three parts are ‘Language Rights and Linguistic Citize
(Un)Fixing Education
Invasion, alienation, and imperialist nostalgia
The authors present a materialist analysis of the effects of neoliberalism in education. Specifically, they contend that neoliberalism is a form of cultural invasion that begets necrophilia. Neoliberalism is necrophilous in promoting a cultural desire to fix fluid systems and processes. Such desire manufactures both individuals known and culturally felt experiences of alienation which are, it is argued, symptomatic of an imperialist nostalgia tha…
Strategies of reframing language policy in the liberal state
Political liberalism is frequently invoked in policy debates in the Western world even as Interpretation and application of the individual tenets vary. Drawing upon recent invocations of liberalism among policy leaders and groups, this article seeks to tease out some of the interpretational differences of liberalism, noting how liberalism is invoked to support radically different language policy agendas. The authors discuss the importance of unde…
A Changing Sense of Place
The Politics of Survival in Foundations of Education
In this article, the authors consider the ways that faculty in the Foundations strategize the placement of Foundations in teacher education in a politics of survival. Drawing on archival and interview data, the authors discuss the strategies invoked as boundary-work. They then situate boundary-work within the broader interpretive lens of cognitive framing. The authors then consider how the very language that faculty members use reveals the cognit…
Language Planning for Equal Educational Opportunity in Multilingual States
This article develops the interface between language policy and planning and equal educational opportunity (EEO). Tracing the trajectory of the development “equal educational opportunity” as a normative ideal, this study argues that language policy must serve to promote “actualist” conceptions of EEO. To do this, acquisition planning, as a component of language planning, must respect the first languages of children in school through the provision…
Meaningful Educational Opportunity” May Not be Equality of Educational Opportunity [Essay Review of the Book Moving Every Child Ahead
The Conservative Restoration and Neoliberal Defenses of Bilingual Education
Promoting Democracy and Overcoming Heterosexism
This article deals with the issue of including gay, lesbian, and bisexual (GLB) themed materials in school curricula. It is argued not only that such materials should be included but also that the more radical notion of 'positive systematic inclusion' should be followed. Positive systematic inclusion requires the positive portrayal of GLB persons in the curriculum and prohibits teachers, at least in the early school years, from expressing opinion…
Language, power, and pedagogy
(2001). Language, power, and pedagogy: Bilingual children in the crossfire, by J. Cummins. Bilingual Research Journal: Vol. 25, Special Issue on Dissertations #2, pp. 405-412
Caring Without Justice
Too often 'spirituality' and the methods of leading students toward it are defined in terms of religious beliefs. Even when the notion of spirituality is connected to such benign terms as 'love' or 'caring', it is open to dangerous interpretation. In this paper, I provide illustrations of such interpretations. The way that some people define the many notions that surround spirituality serves to deaden the very spirits they claim to want to save. …
Balkanization, Bilingualism, and Comparisons of Language Situations at Home and Abroad
In this article, I address the “balkanization argument” made by conservatives for English-Only legislation and against bilingualism. The argument here is that the United States faces the sort of linguistic divisions found in other countries. Most frequently invoked are the cases of Canada and Belgium. The claim that the United States should take warning from these countries and avoid the promotion of bilingualism has been made by a number of peop…
The Conservative Restoration and Neoliberal Defenses of Bilingual Education
A Changing Sense of Place
Strategies of reframing language policy in the liberal state
Political liberalism is frequently invoked in policy debates in the Western world even as Interpretation and application of the individual tenets vary. Drawing upon recent invocations of liberalism among policy leaders and groups, this article seeks to tease out some of the interpretational differences of liberalism, noting how liberalism is invoked to support radically different language policy agendas. The authors discuss the importance of unde…
The Politics of Survival in Foundations of Education
In this article, the authors consider the ways that faculty in the Foundations strategize the placement of Foundations in teacher education in a politics of survival. Drawing on archival and interview data, the authors discuss the strategies invoked as boundary-work. They then situate boundary-work within the broader interpretive lens of cognitive framing. The authors then consider how the very language that faculty members use reveals the cognit…
Invasion, alienation, and imperialist nostalgia
The authors present a materialist analysis of the effects of neoliberalism in education. Specifically, they contend that neoliberalism is a form of cultural invasion that begets necrophilia. Neoliberalism is necrophilous in promoting a cultural desire to fix fluid systems and processes. Such desire manufactures both individuals known and culturally felt experiences of alienation which are, it is argued, symptomatic of an imperialist nostalgia tha…
Language, power, and pedagogy
(2001). Language, power, and pedagogy: Bilingual children in the crossfire, by J. Cummins. Bilingual Research Journal: Vol. 25, Special Issue on Dissertations #2, pp. 405-412
Balkanization, Bilingualism, and Comparisons of Language Situations at Home and Abroad
In this article, I address the “balkanization argument” made by conservatives for English-Only legislation and against bilingualism. The argument here is that the United States faces the sort of linguistic divisions found in other countries. Most frequently invoked are the cases of Canada and Belgium. The claim that the United States should take warning from these countries and avoid the promotion of bilingualism has been made by a number of peop…
Toward a non-economistic understanding of higher education as a public and private good for the public good
This article defines a public good, arguing that higher education should be considered a public good. This requires moving away from an orthodox economistic understanding of public goods. It also requires understanding the relationship between higher education as both a private good and a public good to the extent that it promotes individual flourishing necessary to the public good
Balkanization, Bilingualism, and Comparisons of Language Situations at Home and Abroad
In this article, I address the “balkanization argument” made by conservatives for English-Only legislation and against bilingualism. The argument here is that the United States faces the sort of linguistic divisions found in other countries. Most frequently invoked are the cases of Canada and Belgium. The claim that the United States should take warning from these countries and avoid the promotion of bilingualism has been made by a number of peop…
Caring Without Justice
Too often 'spirituality' and the methods of leading students toward it are defined in terms of religious beliefs. Even when the notion of spirituality is connected to such benign terms as 'love' or 'caring', it is open to dangerous interpretation. In this paper, I provide illustrations of such interpretations. The way that some people define the many notions that surround spirituality serves to deaden the very spirits they claim to want to save. …
Language, power, and pedagogy
(2001). Language, power, and pedagogy: Bilingual children in the crossfire, by J. Cummins. Bilingual Research Journal: Vol. 25, Special Issue on Dissertations #2, pp. 405-412
Promoting Democracy and Overcoming Heterosexism
This article deals with the issue of including gay, lesbian, and bisexual (GLB) themed materials in school curricula. It is argued not only that such materials should be included but also that the more radical notion of 'positive systematic inclusion' should be followed. Positive systematic inclusion requires the positive portrayal of GLB persons in the curriculum and prohibits teachers, at least in the early school years, from expressing opinion…
The Conservative Restoration and Neoliberal Defenses of Bilingual Education
Language Planning for Equal Educational Opportunity in Multilingual States
This article develops the interface between language policy and planning and equal educational opportunity (EEO). Tracing the trajectory of the development “equal educational opportunity” as a normative ideal, this study argues that language policy must serve to promote “actualist” conceptions of EEO. To do this, acquisition planning, as a component of language planning, must respect the first languages of children in school through the provision…
Meaningful Educational Opportunity” May Not be Equality of Educational Opportunity [Essay Review of the Book Moving Every Child Ahead
The Politics of Survival in Foundations of Education
In this article, the authors consider the ways that faculty in the Foundations strategize the placement of Foundations in teacher education in a politics of survival. Drawing on archival and interview data, the authors discuss the strategies invoked as boundary-work. They then situate boundary-work within the broader interpretive lens of cognitive framing. The authors then consider how the very language that faculty members use reveals the cognit…
A Changing Sense of Place
Strategies of reframing language policy in the liberal state
Political liberalism is frequently invoked in policy debates in the Western world even as Interpretation and application of the individual tenets vary. Drawing upon recent invocations of liberalism among policy leaders and groups, this article seeks to tease out some of the interpretational differences of liberalism, noting how liberalism is invoked to support radically different language policy agendas. The authors discuss the importance of unde…
Invasion, alienation, and imperialist nostalgia
The authors present a materialist analysis of the effects of neoliberalism in education. Specifically, they contend that neoliberalism is a form of cultural invasion that begets necrophilia. Neoliberalism is necrophilous in promoting a cultural desire to fix fluid systems and processes. Such desire manufactures both individuals known and culturally felt experiences of alienation which are, it is argued, symptomatic of an imperialist nostalgia tha…
(Un)Fixing Education
The Multilingual Citizen
This is a thoughtful and well-organised collection of essays on the politics of language, focusing specifically on linguistic citizenship. Its three parts are ‘Language Rights and Linguistic Citize
Linguistic appropriation and/or dispossession
Toward a non-economistic understanding of higher education as a public and private good for the public good
This article defines a public good, arguing that higher education should be considered a public good. This requires moving away from an orthodox economistic understanding of public goods. It also requires understanding the relationship between higher education as both a private good and a public good to the extent that it promotes individual flourishing necessary to the public good
Sociology (15 works) · Political science (14 works) · Law (9 works) · Pedagogy (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (7 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Global Educational Policies and Reforms (5 works)