Wigfield, A. orcid.org/0000-0002-4839-7719 and Turner, R. (2016) Mr Cameron's New Language Initiative for Muslim Women: Lessons in Policy Implementation. Political Quarterly, 87 (3). ISSN 0032-3179
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.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Authors 2016. The Political Quarterly © The Political Quarterly Publishing Co. Ltd. 2016. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Political Quarterly. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Muslim women; English lessons; integration; David Cameron; policy implementation; South Asian |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Sociological Studies (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 20 Apr 2016 15:42 |
Last Modified: | 01 Jul 2017 06:03 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-923X.12254 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/1467-923X.12254 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:98623 |