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Languages of Instruction for African Emancipation (Casas Book Series)
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$ 37.68
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Item Description...
Product Description
Languages of Instruction for African Emancipation is a collection of case studies from seven African countries poses questions such as: What alternatives are there for educational language policies towards African emancipation? What efforts have governments made to change the language policy in favour of African languages and how far have they succeeded? What challenges do African learners face when it comes to current language of instruction policies? The authors reject a language education policy that neglects the multilingualism existing in Africa; that reinforces patterns of privilege that existed in the colonial era, further entrenching the schism between the elite and the masses. They give short shrift to the 'new' justification of the unjustifiable status accorded to English in Africa as the language of globalisation, suggesting that it is not relevant to the vast majority of African lives and their human development. The sum of thoughts presented suggests that the answer to the language question provides the key to development challenges and further emancipation of the African peoples, which, it is argued, is at the same time a question that will determine whether Africa will remain a recognisable and distinctive cultural component of humanity or whether Africans will cease to exist culturally as Africans.
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Item Specifications...
Pages 268
Dimensions: Length: 8.9" Width: 5.9" Height: 0.7"
Weight: 0.95 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Release Date Sep 5, 2000
Publisher Mkuki Na Nyota Publishers
ISBN 9987417361
EAN 9789987417360
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