A Critical Integrated Approach to Language Policy as Discursive Action: Strengths, Challenges, and Opportunities

2016 ◽  
pp. 105-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachele Lawton
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

scholarly journals Model Blue Print Smart City Pemerintah Daerah Berbasis Four Stage Method (FSM) yang Sustainable

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Muhammad Tajuddin Anwar
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
City Planning ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
City Government ◽  
Government Growth ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Grand Design ◽  
Development Goals

Public demands for better public services make City Government inevitably have to keep abreast of information technology (IT) promises high efficiency and better service. Some problems are planning the needs of both hardware, software and human resources are still done partially, as well as procurement, so that the grand design of IT needs to support smart city is very necessary. Data collection methods are quantitative and qualitative using observation, interviews, questionnaires and documentation studies. The results are compiled using the Four-stage e-government growth model method: (1) cataloging, (2) transactions, (3) vertical integration, and (4) horizontal integration. Comprehensive discussion on strategy and design, sustainable smart city planning with attention to several strengths and weaknesses are discussed with special emphasis placed on the extent to which the contribution of smart city sustainable development goals. Identification of challenges and opportunities using evaluation and comparison approaches with each other is in line with the smart city idea of sustainability. The gap in the sustainable smart city blueprint requires an integrated approach based on applied theoretical perspectives to harmonize existing problems and identification solutions for future practices in the field of planning and development of sustainable smart city blueprints. Blueprint smart city to operate properly requires the development and development of infrastructure all of which must be adapted to local environmental conditions, as well as the legal umbrella for sustainable management such as regulations and so forth

An Integrated Approach to Disability Policy Development, Implementation, and Evaluation

2017 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 258-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karrie A. Shogren ◽  
Ruth Luckasson ◽  
Robert L. Schalock
Keyword(s):  
Policy Development ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Disability Policy ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Support Strategies ◽  
Policy Goals ◽  
Specific Support ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Effective Use

Abstract This article provides a framework for an integrated approach to disability policy development, implementation, and evaluation. The article discusses how a framework that combines systems thinking and valued outcomes can be used by coalition partners across ecological systems to implement disability policy, promote the effective use of resources, incorporate specific support strategies that advance identified disability policy goals and lead to systemic changes and enhanced personal outcomes, and focus on activities that advance a unified vision for disability policy and the attainment of personal outcomes. The article concludes with a discussion of the significant challenges and opportunities regarding an integrated approach to disability policy in a time of change.

scholarly journals Multilingual environments: benefits for early language learning

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 38-57
Author(s):  
Déirdre Kirwan
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Policy ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Family Involvement ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Language Awareness ◽  
Early Language

Since the mid-1990s, Scoil Bhríde (Cailíní), a primary school in the suburbs of Dublin, has experienced an unprecedented increase in the level of linguistic and cultural diversity in its pupil body. This paper explains how, in responding to this new phenomenon, an integrated approach to language learning was developed in the school in cooperation with teachers, pupils and parents. The school’s language policy had two overarching goals: To ensure that all pupils become proficient in the language of schooling To exploit the linguistic diversity of the school for the benefit of all pupils Welcoming the plurilingual repertoires of all learners involves the inclusion of home languages in curriculum delivery, and the classroom procedures that facilitate family involvement are described in the present article. The extent to which all languages of the school community are equally valued in light of this programme are examined, including the Irish language, language awareness, and learner autonomy. Issues arising from this approach to linguistic diversity are discussed in addition to implications for practice, policy and further research.

scholarly journals Reflecting on an Integrated Approach for Transport and Spatial Planning as a Pathway to Sustainable Urbanization

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (23) ◽  
pp. 10218
Author(s):  
Juhyun Lee
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Quality Criteria ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Sustainable Land Use ◽  
Social Outcomes ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Sustainable Urbanization ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Barriers And Opportunities ◽  
Restrictive Measures

An integrated approach to transport and spatial development has been promoted over the past decades not only in North America and Europe but also in rapidly growing cities in Asia as a means to achieve sustainable urbanization. Some fundamental issues are yet to be discussed. To what extent does land use and transport integration (LUTI) meet its goals including triggering sustainable land use and enhancing environmental quality? What are the key barriers and opportunities to achieving broader social outcomes such as wellbeing of local populations? This paper critically reflects on LUTI planning and practice in rapidly developing cities with focus on ongoing challenges and opportunities to facilitating sustainable urban development. It points out that without establishing institutional harmonization between spatial and transport planning, LUTI policies are hardly implemented, thus rarely resulting in effective and sustainable land use. Moreover, enhancing the social outcomes by an integrated planning approach requires development control that facilitates various actors to embed quality criteria in development around nodes. Balancing development incentives and restrictive measures for development is critical. Finally, to facilitate sustainable outcomes across varied localities in cities, bottom-up and top-down planning approaches need to be reconciled through the strategic and operational phase of transport projects.

scholarly journals Making Birmingham a Flood Resilient City: Challenges and Opportunities

Water ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 1699 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taiwo Adedeji ◽  
David Proverbs ◽  
Hong Xiao ◽  
Paul Cobbing ◽  
Victor Oladokun
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Flood Risk Management ◽  
Communication Strategy ◽  
Water Flooding ◽  
Physical Damage ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
The City

The city of Birmingham has experienced a number of significant flooding events in the past two decades. The impacts of these flood events include physical damage to critical infrastructure, as well as significant losses caused by business interruption and general disruption to communities. Human losses and impacts can be life changing. This study identifies the current challenges and opportunities of managing flood risk in the city of Birmingham, drawing on a desk-based account of current flood risk management (FRM) practice and diagnostic evidence. This interrogation adopts the use of a ‘flood resilience circle model’ to consider ways to address the challenges in a methodological manner aligned to an integrated approach to flood risk management. Solutions aligned to the key FRM stages of prevention, preparation, response and recovery are provided. The findings will be of interest to policy makers and decision makers on how to address current weaknesses in FRM practices towards the prospect of a sustainable approach that improves the resilience of the city and delivers multiple benefits. Recommendations made include the adoption of a blue-green systems approach, the development of a new communication strategy aligned to motivating behaviour change, and improved flood forecasting especially for surface water flooding.

scholarly journals ENGLISH AND IDENTITY IN MULTICULTURAL CONTEXTS: ISSUES, CHALLENGES, AND OPPORTUNITIES

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Anita Lie
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Policy ◽  
English Language ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Performance Standards ◽  
Identity Transformation ◽  
National Language ◽  
Multicultural Context ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Local Languages

The increasing dominance of English has brought implications in language policy and the teaching of English in the multicultural Indonesia. A high power language such as English is taught in schools as a language of modern communication, while the national language is regarded as a force of unifying the nation and local languages as carriers of ‘tradition’ or ‘historical’ identity. Within that context, this article focuses on the increased use of English among an emerging group of young and adolescent learners and their possible identity transformation. This article examines the issues, challenges, and opportunities in English language learning and identity transformation in the multicultural context of Indonesia. A description of the multicultural context and linguistic diversity is presented to understand the language policy and its implications in the functions and degrees of the national language Indonesian, local languages, and English in Indonesia. Issues in the spread of English are explored to understand the challenges and opportunities in transforming cultural identity and achieving performance standards in English. 

scholarly journals Challenges and opportunities in researching the lives of young people on the move

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-25
Author(s):  
Moa Nyamwathi Lønning
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Creative Arts ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Conducting Research

This article explores different challenges and opportunities in researching the lives of young people on the move with a focus on ethics, context and methods. It addresses concerns raised by research with minors and individuals who are undocumented, and looks at the implications of migratory landscapes and particular field sites. Complexities of conducting research in a context marked by transience are also examined. Moreover, two approaches, ethnographic fieldwork and creative arts-based methods, are explored for their potential in such settings. It is maintained that challenges and opportunities arising when researching the lives of young people on the move can be best addressed with an integrated approach that employs participant-centred methods and that is exploratory, flexible and sensitive.  

scholarly journals Associate professor of applied linguistics Applied Linguistics Dept., Arabic Linguistics Inst., King Saud University

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (13) ◽  
pp. 199-235
Author(s):  
د. محمود بن عبدالله المحمود د. محمود بن عبدالله المحمود
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Linguistic Landscape ◽  
King Saud University ◽  
Implementation Challenges ◽  
Future Aspirations ◽  
Arabic Linguistics

In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the concern of the Arabic language is reflected in the Saudi language policy, which is displayed in all aspects of decisions, programs, projects and public life. The Kingdom’s development process has facilitated significant improvements at all levels, which enhances the need for continuous review of the language policy to ensure that it is achieving its goals. The current study seeks to discuss Saudi language policy in general, with a specific focus on Arabic language decisions, by utilizing an integrated approach, consisting of questionnaire and interview with a sample of administrative leaders in the Kingdom. The study seeks to discuss the ideology underlying Saudi language policy, as well as views on its nature, effectiveness, impact and implementation challenges; it also proposes a framework to build a Saudi language policy aimed at preserving previous achievements and achieving future aspirations. The study demonstrates the existence of social, cultural and linguistic ideologies that support the policies related to the Arabic language, such as considering it as a basic component of the political entity, a major part of the national identity; it also identifies concern for Arabic in the linguistic landscape, along with its centrality in the educational system, and the keenness of linguistic purification. The results also showed the participants’ agreement on the clarity of the decisions on language, as well as its comprehensiveness, need for development, and the extent to which individuals and institutions exhibit a weak awareness of it. Also, it reveals the existence of some problems that prevent its implementation, which are related to the decisions themselves, the procedural processes, or the administrative institutions. The study also provides suggested methodological recommendations to build the desired language policy, which proceeds from a research base and builds on current achievements.

scholarly journals Challenges and Opportunities of English and Urdu contest: Language Planning and the Implementation of Article 251 in Pakistan

2020 ◽  
Vol V (III) ◽  
pp. 77-87
Author(s):  
Ayaz Ahmad ◽  
Liaqat Iqbal ◽  
Irfan Ullah
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
English Language ◽  
National Language ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Language Policy And Planning ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Class Division ◽  
Colonial Legacy ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Policy And Planning

Immediately after independence in 1947, Urdu became the national language of Pakistan. The constitution of 1973 promised the realization of this goal in Article 251. This paper analyses the causes of its lack of implementation with the help of textual analysis of archival sources. A historical overview of the introduction and domination of the English language in South Asia through colonial machinery explains the reasons for ambivalence about English and Urdu language to be entrenched in the colonial legacy and anticolonial nationalism. The lack of capacity and will combines with the forces for globalism in enhancing the position of the English language in Pakistan. Further, the association of English and Urdu with the existing class division has reduced the debate about language policy to rhetorical postures. The paper proposes a reconsideration of the historical top-down formation of language policy and planning and its replacement with a renewed bottom-up approach where diversity in Pakistan is accessed as a resource instead of treating it as a problem.

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