Education in a Diverse Society Necessitates the Implementation of an Equitable Language Policy: The Russian Experience. Issue 1 (January 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sinagatullin, Ilghiz M.
• Is Part Of: International journal of educational reform. Volume 22:Issue 1(2013)
• Page Start: 103
• Page End: 113
• Publication Date: 2013-01
• Subjects: Educational change -- Periodicals; Educational change -- United States -- Periodicals; Education and state -- Periodicals; Education and state -- United States -- Periodicals; Education, Secondary -- Periodicals; Periodicals; 379
• DOI: 10.1177/105678791302200106
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2631-9675

Abstract

Russia's secondary school populations are becoming increasingly diverse in terms of ethnicity, culture, language, and religion. The growing diversity makes a considerable impact on the functions and goals of schools, the realization of which requires the implementation of an equitable language policy. In this article, I briefly represent Russia as a diverse society, examine a range of important functions of the secondary school, introduce the language situation being unfolded on a nationwide scale, and capture the essentials of a language policy that young graduates need to productively function in their own community, the mainstream society, and in an interdependent global space.