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Title: Death of Vernaculars and Language Hegemony: An Ethnography of the Higher Education Sector in 21st Century India
Language: English
Authors: Rajeev Kumaramkandath
Source: Higher Education Forum. 2024 21:201-221.
Availability: Research Institute for Higher Education, Hiroshima University. 1-2-2 Kagamiyama, Higashi-hiroshima, Hiroshima City, Japan 739-8512. Tel: +81-82-424-6240; Fax: +81-82-422-7104; e-mail: k-kokyo@office.hiroshima-u.ac.jp; Web site: https://ir.lib.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/journals/HighEduForum
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 21
Publication Date: 2024
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education
Postsecondary Education
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction, Neoliberalism, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Human Capital, Ethnography, Indo European Languages, Internet, Influence of Technology, Language Attitudes, Dravidian Languages, Classical Languages, Language Teachers, College Second Language Programs
Geographic Terms: India
ISSN: 2432-9614
Abstract: The paper examines how new age pedagogies and neoliberal policies consciously work towards "naturalizing" English language's hegemony in institutions of Higher Education (IHE) in India. An ethnographic study the paper foregrounds the precarious positioning of non-English Indian languages "vis-à-vis" the pervading discourses of internationalization and education as job/skill oriented. Hegemony of English in the present is coupled with a restructuring of language departments as well as fleeting market demands for human capital. The paper also brings into question the role of the Internet and related technologies in reorganizing the linguistic dynamics of HE. Instead of democratizing, the Internet produces new monopolies in knowledge production, controls knowledge traffic from global North to South and further legitimizes the language hegemony. The paper argues that, in the last two decades, the neoliberal rupture has been leading HE institutions to a death of vernaculars within their physical, cultural and academic spaces.
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