Frontmatter -- Contents -- The Contributors -- Introduction: Literacy and Language Planning -- Language Planning for Literacy: Issues and Implications -- Early Literacy Policy: National and Local Instantiations -- Language Planning and Literacy in Kenya: Living with Unresolved Paradoxes -- Conceptions of Literacy in Canadian Immigrant Language Training -- Singapore's Literacy Policy and its Conflicting Ideologies -- Rethinking Language Planning and Policy from the Ground Up: Refashioning Institutional Realities and Human Lives -- Legislating Literacy for Linguistic and Ethnic Minorities in Contemporary China -- Vernaculars in Literacy and Basic Education in Cambodia, Laos and Thailand -- Literacy in Pidgin and Creole Languages -- The Consequences of Vernacular (Il)literacy in the Pacific -- Literacy in a Dying Language: The Case of Kuot, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea -- Vernacular Literacy in the Touo Language of the Solomon Islands -- Is it Aulua or Education Dressed up in Kastom?: A Report on the Ongoing Negotiation of Literacy and Identity in a Ni Vanuatu Community -- Bridging the Gap: The Development of Appropriate Educational Strategies for Minority Language Communities in the Philippines -- Literacy and Language-in-Education Policy in Bidialectal Settings