ABSTRACT
Although decisions about medium of instruction are often justified with pedagogical rationales, medium-of-instruction policies are not formed in isolation, but rather emerge in the context of powerful social and political forces, including globalization, migration and demographic changes, political conflict, changes in government, shifts in the structure of local economies, and elite competition. Amajor purpose of this collection of chapters is to explore the connections between medium-of-instruction policies and these broader sociopolitical issues.
