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Australian Policy Activism in Language and Literacy presents the dynamics of language and literacy policy activism in Australia by capturing accounts of many of those most deeply engaged in Australia?s distinctive practice of Language and Literacy policy-making and its effects. This book describes how policy texts came about. 1. From policy to anti-policy: how fear of language rights took policy-making out of community hands /? Joseph Lo Bianco
2. Australia's language /? Paul Brock
3. Politics, activism and processes of policy production: adult literacy in Australia /? Rosie Wickert
4. Although it wasn't broken, it certainly was fixed: interventions in the Australian Adult Migrant English Program 1991-1996 /? Helen Moore
5. Advocating the sustainability of linguistic diversity /? Michael Singh
6. The cost of literacy for some /? Anthea Taylor
7. (E)merging discourses at work: bringing together new and old ways to account for workplace literacy policy /? Geraldine Castleton
8. The melody changes but the dance goes on - tracking adult literacy education in Western Australia from 'learning for life' to 'lifelong learning': policy impacts on practice 1973-1999 /? Margaret McHugh, Jennifer Nevard and Anthea Taylor
9. Sleight of hand: job myths, literacy and social capital /? Ian Falk
10. National literacy benchmarks and the outstreaming of ESL learners /? Penny McKay
11. Open for business: the market, the state and adult literacy in Australia up to and beyond 2000 /? Peter Kell
12. Inventiveness and regression: interpreting/?translating and the vicissitudes of Australian language policy /? Uldis Ozolins
13. Deafness and sign language in government policy documents 1983-1990 /? Des Power
14. Imprisoned by a landmark narrative? Student/?teacher ratios and the making of policy /? Merilyn Childs
15. Ideologies, languages, policies: Australia's ambivalent relationship with learning to communicate in 'other' languages /? Angela Scarino and Leo Papademetre
16. Reconciled to what? Reconciliation and the Norther Territory's bilingual education program, 1973-1998 /? Christine Nicholls
17. Sing out that song: the textual activities of social technologies in an Aboriginal community /? Jack Frawley.