From Conflict to Reconciliation:Logical Analysis on the Historical Change of Language Education Policies in India——Based on the Historical Institutionalism
In multi-ethnic and multi-language countries,the historical change of language education policies reflects the interest conflict between different language groups,which is essentially the process of political power games.India is a multi-ethnic and multi-language country,Indian language education policies have undergone three stages including colonial stage,independence stage and Three-language formula stage.Based on the theory of historical institutionalism,we found that the changes of language education policies in India are affected by such structural factors as language ecological environment,mother tongue education ethos and hindu nationalism.The power game between colonist and nationalist in colonial stage,federal government and states in independent stage is the major driving force to change language education policies.The self-adaption expectation of the system,the high cost of setting up and withdrawal from the system and cooperative effect have led to a strong path dependence in the development of the language education policies in India,and realize the survival of multilingualism.
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