Is the Monolingual Nation‐state Out‐of‐date? A Comparative Study of Language Policies in Australia and the Philippines

AbstractThis article provides an introduction to the special issue onMapping Shia Muslim Communities in Europe.1 With six empirically rich case studies on Shia Muslim communities in various European countries, this issue intends: first, to illustrate the historical developments and emergence of the Shia presence in Europe; second, to highlight the local particularities of the various Shia communities within each nation state and demonstrate their transnational links; and third, to provide for the first time an empirical comparative study on the increasingly visible presence of Shia communities in Europe that fills an important gap in research on Muslims in Europe.

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Language Policies and Minority Rights: Australia and the Philippines

Curriculum and Teaching ◽

10.7459/ct/11.2.10 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 77-94 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jerzy Smolicz

Keyword(s):

Minority Rights ◽

The Philippines ◽

Language Policies

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Critical Community Language Policies in Education

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190458898.013.20 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Karen Ann Watson-Gegeo ◽

David W. Gegeo ◽

Billy Fito'o

Keyword(s):

Solomon Islands ◽

Indigenous Communities ◽

Development Theory ◽

Nation State ◽

Language Policy And Planning ◽

Language Policies ◽

Rapid Social Change ◽

Policy And Planning ◽

First Offers ◽

Community Language

This chapter first offers an overview of critical community language policy and planning in education (CCLPE). It provides an example of CCLPE, focusing on Malaita in the wake of the Tenson (ethnic conflict) between Guadalcanal and Malaita in Solomon Islands (SI) (1998–2007). The authors contextualize their analysis by tracing the turning points for LPP in SI history, and discuss implications of the SI case for CCLPE and the future of SI education. The analysis focuses on local processes of uncertainty and instability in times of rapid social change that undermine community faith in the nation-state. The chapter shows that indigenous communities have learned that they can exert their agency to shape LPP from the bottom up, and that the shaping must be grounded in indigenous language(s) and culture(s). This argument is consistent with the call for epistemological and ontological diversity in development theory, education, and related studies.

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Comparative Study of the Leaf Morphology of Epipremnum Schott and Rhaphidophora Hassk. (Araceae) in the Philippines

Philippine Journal of Systematic Biology ◽

10.3860/pjsb.v1i1.905 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Jasper John A Obico ◽

Carmela Kathrina C Bagay ◽

Amelia S Asencion ◽

Esperanza Maribel G Agoo ◽

Melanie M Medecilo

Keyword(s):

Comparative Study ◽

Leaf Morphology ◽

The Philippines

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Library and Information Science Collaborations in the Philippines and Beyond

Library Science and Administration ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-3914-8.ch036 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 754-779

Author(s):

Ana Maria B. Fresnido ◽

Joseph M. Yap

Keyword(s):

Comparative Study ◽

Resource Sharing ◽

Information Science ◽

The Philippines ◽

Information Resources ◽

Library And Information Science ◽

Budget Cuts ◽

Library Consortia ◽

Academic School ◽

Cooperative Purchasing

The development of library cooperation in the Philippines, particularly among academic, school, and special libraries, started in the early 1930s and was known under different names (Ladlad, 2003), such as resource sharing, partnership, consortium, linkage, library cooperation, and networking. Libraries usually come together in the form of consortia to supplement existing resources by providing access to information available in other libraries. Through cooperation, libraries are able to withstand the skyrocketing prices of information resources as well as budget cuts by means of consortium/cooperative purchasing. Likewise, library cooperation has proven to be an effective way of presenting smart solutions to common library problems/concerns through communities of practice. This chapter provides an overview of major library consortia in the Philippines. The compiled list is as exhaustive as possible. However, due to scarcity of sources, some active consortia may not have been included in the list. The information provided in this chapter was gathered mostly from published Websites. A comparative study, in terms of aims/objectives and activities being carried out by the different consortia, was also included and can be found at the end of this chapter.

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