scholarly journals Rhetoric and Reality: A Critical Review of Language Policy and Legislation Governing Official Minority Language Use in Health and Social Care in Wales

2021 ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
Cynog Prys ◽  
Rhian Hodges ◽  
Gwerfyl Wyn Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Minority Language ◽  
Health And Social Care

scholarly journals Critical Mass and Insecurity in Minority Language Policy

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 300-316
Author(s):  
C.F. Huws
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Critical Mass ◽  
Minority Language ◽  
Specific Focus ◽  
Welsh Language ◽  
Minority Language Policy

This article will discuss the extent to which legislation is effective in terms of changing individual and group behaviours. The specific focus of this article will be to argue that legislation pertaining to the use of the Welsh language in Wales, despite having expanded the domains of language use in an important way, has not shifted the cycle of language non-use that may be identified.

scholarly journals “No, no Maama! Say ‘Shaatir ya Ouledee Shaatir’!” Children’s agency in language use and socialisation

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 771-785 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatma Said ◽  
Hua Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Policy ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Family Relationship ◽  
Minority Language ◽  
Family Language Policy ◽  
Children’S Agency ◽  
Family Language ◽  
Arabic And English ◽  
The Uk

Aims and objectives: This paper investigates how children in multilingual and transnational families mobilise their multiple and developing linguistic repertoires creatively to assert their agency in language use and socialisation, and why these acts of agency are conducive to successful maintenance of the so-called “home”, “community” or “minority” language. Methodology: Close, qualitative analysis of mealtime multiparty conversations is carried out to examine children’s agency in language use and socialisation. Data and analysis: Twelve hours of mealtime conversations within one Arabic and English-speaking multilingual family in the UK were recorded over a period of eight months. The excerpts selected for analysis in this paper illustrate how agency is enacted in interaction. Findings: The data analyses of the family’s language practices reveal both their flexible language policy and the importance the family attaches to Arabic. The children in this family are fully aware of the language preferences of their parents and are capable of manipulating that knowledge and asserting their agency through their linguistic choices to achieve their interactional goals. Originality: This paper explores how Arabic is maintained as a minority language by second and third generations of Arabic-speaking immigrants in the UK through close analysis of conversations. Significance: The findings contribute to the current discussions of family language policy and maintenance by demonstrating children’s agentive and creative roles in language use and socialisation. Three factors are identified as the reason for the successful language learning, use and maintenance of Arabic: firstly, a family language policy that has a positive multilingual outlook; secondly, family relationship dynamics that connect and bond family members; and thirdly, the children’s highly developed ability to understand their parents’ language preferences.

scholarly journals The capacity of health service commissioners to use evidence: a case study

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. 1-198
Author(s):  
Graeme Currie ◽  
Charlotte Croft ◽  
Yaru Chen ◽  
Tina Kiefer ◽  
Sophie Staniszewska ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Patient Experience ◽  
Local Knowledge ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Public Involvement ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Avoidable Admissions ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Different Types

Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) lead a network of organisations that plan and make decisions about what services to provide through the NHS. To make commissioning decisions based on evidence, CCGs need to develop capacity to acquire and use evidence of different types. CCGs can not only draw on evidence about what is most clinically effective or cost-effective, but also consider patient experience and local knowledge held by doctors. Policy-makers recognise this and require that CCG-led commissioning networks include general practitioners (GPs), so that their knowledge about the local population and services is considered, and patient and public involvement (PPI) representatives, so that patient experience is considered, in their decision-making. In the context of older persons’ care and potentially avoidable admissions, CCGs should also seek to integrate evidence from health-care organisations with that held by social care organisations (adult social care departments in local authorities).Funded by the National Institute for Health Research, through its Health Services and Delivery Research programme (12/5002/01), our research empirically focuses on a tracer study of reducing potentially avoidable admissions of older people into acute hospitals. Our study examines the critical review capacity of 13 cases of representative (region, size, urban/rural) commissioning networks in England to acquire and use different types of evidence to inform their decisions about service interventions.Conceptually, we apply a specific model of knowledge mobilisation, absorptive capacity (ACAP), which details the antecedents and dimensions of an organisation’s capacity to acquire and use knowledge for enhanced performance. Drawing on interviews with commissioning managers, GPs, PPI representatives and other relevant stakeholders, our study highlights that commissioning networks led by CCGs lack capacity to use different types of evidence to make well-informed decisions. We find that the use of local knowledge about patients, and the patient experience of services, may be poor. CCGs make poor use of data about population need and existing services, which the external organisation (commissioning support units) potentially provides. Voluntary organisations have a role to play in providing evidence about gaps in patient need and local services. Finally, given the need for health and social care organisations to work together, specifically in older people’s care, there is a need to integrate different evidence and perspectives in decision-making across health and social care organisations. Based on the above, our study develops a self-development psychometric tool for CCG-led commissioning networks to reflect on and enhance their critical review capacity with respect to the acquisition and use of different types of evidence.Limitations are threefold. First, we sampled only 13 cases. Nevertheless, we have attempted to generate transferable lessons for other commissioning networks through theoretical analysis, drawing on dimensions of ACAP to highlight factors influencing evidence use. Second, GPs engaged variably across the cases with our study. Others might carry out a more specific study of GP involvement in commissioning. Third, at the inception of our study, CCGs were fledgling organisations. Others may study development of critical review capacity of CCGs as their relationships developed across the commissioning network.

The Politics of Arabic in Israel

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camelia Suleiman
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Language Policy ◽  
Language Choice ◽  
Minority Language ◽  
The Other ◽  
Official Language ◽  
Political Identities ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
The One

Arabic became a minority language in Israel in 1948, as a result of the Palestinian exodus from their land that year. Although it remains an official language, along with Hebrew, Israel has made continued attempts to marginalise Arabic on the one hand, and secutise it on the other. The book delves into these tensions and contradictions, exploring how language policy and language choice both reflect and challenge political identities of Arabs and Israelis. It combines qualitative methods not commonly used together in the study of Arabic in Israel, including ethnography, interviews with journalists and students, media discussions, and analysis of the production of knowledge on Arabic in Israeli academia.

Practices of inclusion for carers who are higher education students

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordan Taylor ◽  
Paula Gleeson ◽  
Tania Teague ◽  
Michelle DiGiacomo
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
Policies And Procedures ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Students With A Disability ◽  
Crucial Part

The role of unpaid and informal care is a crucial part of the health and social care system in Australia and internationally. As carers in Australia have received statutory recognition, concerted efforts to foster engagement in carer participation in work and education has followed. However, little is known about the strategies and policies that higher education institutions have implemented to support the inclusion of carers. This study has three components: first, it employs a review of evidence for interventions to support to support carers; second, it reviews existing higher education institutions’ policies to gauge the extent of inclusive support made available to student carers, and; third it conducts interviews with staff from five higher education institutions with concerted carer policies in Australia were held to discuss their institutions’ policies, and experiences as practitioners of carer inclusion and support. Results indicate difficulty in identifying carers to offer support services, the relatively recent measures taken to accommodate carers in higher education, extending similar measures which are in place for students with a disability, and difficulties accommodating flexibility in rigid institutional settings. A synthesis of these findings were used to produce a framework of strategies, policies and procedures of inclusion to support carers in higher education.

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