Mr Cameron's new language initiative for Muslim women: lessons in policy implementation
Journal article
Authors | Turner, Royce and Wigfield, Andrea |
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Abstract | As the government announces a programme to teach Muslim women to speak English, this article examines how such a policy can be implemented successfully, arguing that lessons can be drawn from both academic research, especially that carried out with Muslim women themselves, and previous successful policy application. It focuses on two projects carried out in the recent past for the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) and Jobcentre Plus, and outlines the key factors that led to their success. The LSC project involved one of the largest in‐depth surveys of Muslim women's attitudes towards work, and their views on life in Britain, that has ever been undertaken. The Jobcentre Plus project was a highly successful and innovative employment training initiative for ethnic minority women piloted in Sheffield, the very kind of ‘targeted’ approach that Mr Cameron has claimed his government's new language initiative will be. |
Keywords | Ethnic minority. Women. English Language. David Cameron. |
Year | 2016 |
Journal | The Political Quarterly |
Publisher | Wiley Blackwell |
ISSN | 1467923X |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-923X.12254 |
https://doi.org/00323179 | |
Web address (URL) | http://hdl.handle.net/10545/624194 |
hdl:10545/624194 | |
Publication dates | 19 May 2016 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 07 Oct 2019, 14:12 |
Accepted | 06 May 2016 |
Contributors | University of Huddersfield |
File | File Access Level Open |
https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/94140/mr-cameron-s-new-language-initiative-for-muslim-women-lessons-in-policy-implementation
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