An edition of Languages and education in africa
(2009)
Languages and education in africa
a comparative and transdisciplinary analysis
by Birgit Brock-Utne, Ingse Skattum, Birgit Brock-Utne, and Ingse Skattum
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About 65 sub-Saharan languages figure in this volume as research objects: as a means of instruction, in connection with teacher training, language policy, lexical development, harmonization efforts, information technology, oral literature and deaf communities.
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Languages and education in africa: a comparative and transdisciplinary analysis
2009, Symposium Books
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Table of Contents
Introduction.
Languages and education in Africa :
a transdisciplinary discussion -- Ingse Skattum and Birgit Brock-Utne
Parents' and policy makers' insistence on foreign languages as media of education in Africa :
restricting access to quality education-- for whose benefit? -- Martha A.S. Qorro
Mother-tongue education in Africa for emancipation and development :
towards the intellectualisation of African languages -- Kwesi Kwaa Prah
Promoting multilingual and multicultural education in francophone Africa :
challenges and perspectives -- Hassana Alidou
Assumptions and aspirations regarding African languages in South African higher education :
a sociolinguistic appraisal -- Rajend Mesthrie
L'utilisation des langues nationales dans le système éducatif malien :
historique, défis et perspectives -- Mamadou Lamine Traoré
The role of national languages in Mali's modernising Islamic schools (madrasa) -- Tal Tamari
National language teaching as a tool for Malagasy learners' integration into globalisation -- Irène Rabenoro
Implications of the use of mother tongues versus English as languages of instruction for academic achievement in Ethiopia -- Mekonnen Alemu Gebre Yohannes
Weaning Africa from Europe :
toward a mother-tongue education policy in southern Africa -- Silvester Ron Simango
The training of teachers of African languages in southern Africa with special reference to Botswana and Zambia -- Lazarus M. Miti & Kemmonye C. Monaka
Spare no means :
battling with the English/Kiswahili dilemma in Tanzania secondary school classrooms -- Halima Mohammed Mwinsheikhe
Language, dialect and region :
the handling of language variation in Shona dictionaries -- Herbert Chimhundu
Harmonisation of the Shona varieties :
Doke revisited -- Nhira Edgar Mberi
Adjectives in Shona -- Nomalanga Mpofu
From standardisation to harmonisation :
a survey of the sociolinguistic and political conditions for the creation of Nguni in southern Africa -- Samukele Hadebe
La communication médiatisée par les technologies de l'information et de la communication :
la porte d'accès au domaine de l'écrit pour les langues africaines? -- Kristin Vold Lexander
Comment les langues se mélangent-elles à l'écrit?
Pratiques actuelles de deux agriculteurs passés par une école bilingue (franco-bambara) au Mali -- Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye & Cécile Van den Avenne
Towards an enriched beginning readingn programme in Yoruba -- Foluso O. Okebukola
What is South African sign language?
What is the South African deaf community? -- Philemon Akach, Eline Demey, Emily Matabane, Mieke Van Herreweghe & Myriam Vermeerbergen.
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Includes bibliographical references.
English and French.
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