'Drop-outs' or 'heritage learners'? Competing mentalities of governmentality and invested meanings at a weekend Japanese language school in the USA

Discourse

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 561-573

  Doerr, Neriko Musha ^a   Lee, Kiri ^b  

^a RAMAPO COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^b LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

governmentality; heritage; Japanese language school; language politics; perceptions; schooling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866868321     PISSN: 01596306     EISSN: 14693739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2012.692962     Document Type: Article

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