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Languages and Education in Africa

Author : Birgit Brock-Utne
Publisher : Symposium Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1873927177
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (739 download)

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Download or read book Languages and Education in Africa written by Birgit Brock-Utne and published by Symposium Books Ltd. This book was released on 2009-05-11 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theme of this book cuts across disciplines. Contributors to this volume are specialized in education and especially classroom research as well as in linguistics, most being transdisciplinary themselves. Around 65 sub-Saharan languages figure in this volume as research objects: as means of instruction, in connection with teacher training, language policy, lexical development, harmonization efforts, information technology, oral literature and deaf communities. The co-existence of these African languages with English, French and Arabic is examined as well. This wide range of languages and subjects builds on recent field work, giving new empirical evidence from 17 countries: Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe, as well as to transnational matters like the harmonization of African transborder languages. As the Editors – a Norwegian social scientist and a Norwegian linguist, both working in Africa – have wanted to give room for African voices, the majority of contributions to this volume come from Africa.

State-Building and Multilingual Education in Africa

Author : Ericka A. Albaugh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139916777
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (399 download)

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Book Synopsis State-Building and Multilingual Education in Africa by : Ericka A. Albaugh

Download or read book State-Building and Multilingual Education in Africa written by Ericka A. Albaugh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do governments in Africa make decisions about language? What does language have to do with state-building, and what impact might it have on democracy? This manuscript provides a longue durée explanation for policies toward language in Africa, taking the reader through colonial, independence, and contemporary periods. It explains the growing trend toward the use of multiple languages in education as a result of new opportunities and incentives. The opportunities incorporate ideational relationships with former colonizers as well as the work of language NGOs on the ground. The incentives relate to the current requirements of democratic institutions, and the strategies leaders devise to win elections within these constraints. By contrasting the environment faced by African leaders with that faced by European state-builders, it explains the weakness of education and limited spread of standard languages on the continent. The work combines constructivist understanding about changing preferences with realist insights about the strategies leaders employ to maintain power.

Languages in Africa

Author : Elizabeth C. Zsiga
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 1626161534
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Languages in Africa written by Elizabeth C. Zsiga and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People in many African communities live within a series of concentric circles when it comes to language. In a small group, a speaker uses an often unwritten and endangered mother tongue that is rarely used in school. A national indigenous language—written, widespread, sometimes used in school—surrounds it. An international language like French or English, a vestige of colonialism, carries prestige, is used in higher education, and promises mobility—and yet it will not be well known by its users. The essays in Languages in Africa explore the layers of African multilingualism as they affect language policy and education. Through case studies ranging across the continent, the contributors consider multilingualism in the classroom as well as in domains ranging from music and film to politics and figurative language. The contributors report on the widespread devaluing and even death of indigenous languages. They also investigate how poor teacher training leads to language-related failures in education. At the same time, they demonstrate that education in a mother tongue can work, linguists can use their expertise to provoke changes in language policies, and linguistic creativity thrives in these multilingual communities.

Multilingualism and Education in Africa

Author : Ruth W. Ndung’u
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443869600
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis Multilingualism and Education in Africa by : Ruth W. Ndung’u

Download or read book Multilingualism and Education in Africa written by Ruth W. Ndung’u and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a must-read for every language teaching professional and researcher working in a multilingual context. Multilingualism and Education in Africa: The State of the State of the Art is an up-to-date exploration and wide-ranging review of the symbiotic relationship between multilingualism and education in Africa. The African continent is rich in languages. Most of her inhabitants are multilingual and many of the nations have embraced multilingual education. This book examines multilingualism in education from three broad perspectives: multilingualism and language in education policy in Africa; multilingualism as an educational resource in Africa; and attitudes and challenges of multilingualism and education in Africa. The book’s nineteen chapters discuss these three perspectives from East, West, Central and South Africa. All the contributors are leading authorities in multilingualism and education. The chapters combine a wide range of viewpoints based on theoretical, empirical and personal experiences. The reader is left with a deeper understanding of the unique features of multilingualism and education in Africa that have seldom been addressed by those who experience them first-hand. The book demonstrates successful practices in multilingualism and education; showing how African nations have determined what works for them without ignoring challenges such as policies on paper, attitudes towards African languages and limited resources. The benefits of multilingual education override the challenges. The book’s extensive coverage makes it an important resource for scholars and policy makers in the field of multilingualism and education. Overall, this book represents an important contribution to an important subject in education globally. The editors have provided an introductory overview to the book and commentaries on the three sections.

Language, Democracy and Education in Africa

Author : Birgit Brock-Utne
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN 13 : 9789171064912
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (649 download)

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Book Synopsis Language, Democracy and Education in Africa by : Birgit Brock-Utne

Download or read book Language, Democracy and Education in Africa written by Birgit Brock-Utne and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 2002 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is built on two papers. In the first paper the author looks at the language question through the eyes of a social and political scientist. The second paper is an extended version of the author's talk to the NAI Research Forum on 24 January 2002.

African Languages for the Mass Education of Africans

Author : Kwesi Kwaa Prah
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Languages for the Mass Education of Africans written by Kwesi Kwaa Prah and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Language in Education in Africa

Author : Casmir M. Rubagumya
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 9781853590627
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (96 download)

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Book Synopsis Language in Education in Africa by : Casmir M. Rubagumya

Download or read book Language in Education in Africa written by Casmir M. Rubagumya and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 1990 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text aims to provide a realistic approach to the theoretical and philosophical aspects of ethics and the advancement of medical practice. It reports on the clinical application of ethical concerns in an actual healthcare setting.

Language of Instruction in Tanzania and South Africa - Highlights from a Project

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9460912222
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Language of Instruction in Tanzania and South Africa - Highlights from a Project written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on chapters in a series of four books from the first five years (2002-2006) of the Language of Instruction in Tanzania and South Africa (LOITASA) project. LOITASA is a NUFU-funded (Norwegian University Fund) project which began in January 2002 and will continue through to the end of 2011. The chapters reflect the state of the research at the end of the first five years of LOITASA in 2006 and were selected by reviewers independent of the project.

Local Languages as a Human Right in Education

Author : Zehlia Babaci-Wilhite
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9462099472
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Book Synopsis Local Languages as a Human Right in Education by : Zehlia Babaci-Wilhite

Download or read book Local Languages as a Human Right in Education written by Zehlia Babaci-Wilhite and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “There seems to be general agreement that children learn better when they understand what the teacher is saying. In Africa this is not the case. Instruction is given in a foreign language, a language neither pupils nor the teachers understand well. This is the greatest educational problem there is in Africa. This is the problem this book discusses and it is therefore an important book. The recent focus on quality education becomes meaningless when teaching is given in a language pupils do not understand. Babaci-Wilhite concludes that any local curriculum that ignores local languages and contexts risks a loss of learning quality and represent a violation of children’s rights in education. The book is highly recommended.” —Birgit Brock-Utne, Professor of Education and Development, University of Oslo, Norway

English Language Education Policy in the Middle East and North Africa

Author : Robert Kirkpatrick
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319467786
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book English Language Education Policy in the Middle East and North Africa written by Robert Kirkpatrick and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers insights on English language education policies in Middle Eastern and North African countries, through state-of-the-art reports giving clear assessments of current policies and future trends, each expertly drafted by a specialist. Each chapter contains a general description of English education polices in the respective countries, and then expands on how the local English education policies play out in practice in the education system at all levels, in the curriculum, in teaching, and in teacher training. Essays cover issues such as the balance between English and the acquisition of the national language or the Arabic language, as well as political, cultural, economic and technical elements that strengthen or weaken the learning of English. This volume is essential reading for researchers, policy makers, and teacher trainers for its invaluable insights in the role of each of the stakeholders in the implementation of policies.

Language and Development in Africa

Author : Ekkehard Wolff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107088550
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Language and Development in Africa written by Ekkehard Wolff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-26 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the central role of language across all aspects of public and private life in Africa.

Language of Instruction in Tanzania and South Africa (LOITASA)

Author : Birgit Brock-Utne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Language of Instruction in Tanzania and South Africa (LOITASA) by : Birgit Brock-Utne

Download or read book Language of Instruction in Tanzania and South Africa (LOITASA) written by Birgit Brock-Utne and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers research findings on the language and education situations in Tanzania and South Africa. It outlines the policies governing language of instruction for education in the two countries, and assesses the extent to which existing policies are being implemented. It presents the history of the development of language policies in the two countries and considers how they are actually working in practice at classroom level. The contributors further consider the economic viabilities of language policies, and the necessity to rationalise languages and dialects for education purposes.

Multilingual Learning and Language Supportive Pedagogies in Sub-Saharan Africa

Author : Elizabeth J. Erling
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000379477
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Book Synopsis Multilingual Learning and Language Supportive Pedagogies in Sub-Saharan Africa by : Elizabeth J. Erling

Download or read book Multilingual Learning and Language Supportive Pedagogies in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Elizabeth J. Erling and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection provides unprecedented insight into the emerging field of multilingual education in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Multilingual education is claimed to have many benefits, amongst which are that it can improve both content and language learning, especially for learners who may have low ability in the medium of instruction and are consequently struggling to learn. The book represents a range of Sub-Saharan school contexts and describes how multilingual strategies have been developed and implemented within them to support the learning of content and language. It looks at multilingual learning from several points of view, including ‘translanguaging’, or the use of multiple languages – and especially African languages – for learning and language-supportive pedagogy, or the implementation of a distinct pedagogy to support learners working through the medium of a second language. The book puts forward strategies for creating materials, classroom environments and teacher education programmes which support the use of all of a student’s languages to improve language and content learning. The contexts which the book describes are challenging, including low school resourcing, poverty and low literacy in the home, and school policy which militates against the use of African languages in school. The volume also draws on multilingual education approaches which have been successfully carried out in higher resource countries and lend themselves to being adapted for use in SSA. It shows how multilingual learning can bring about transformation in education and provides inspiration for how these strategies might spread and be further developed to improve learning in schools in SSA and beyond. Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com.

Bilingual Education

Author : Jim Cummins
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401145318
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Bilingual Education written by Jim Cummins and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a comprehensive account of the implementation of bilingual education programs in countries throughout the world. For academics, graduate students, and policymakers, this volume clearly outlines the social and educational goals that can be achieved through bilingual education. It highlights the need to take account of the complex political context of inter-group relationships within which bilingual programs are inevitably embedded.

Bridges and Barriers

Author : Eddie Williams
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317639251
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Bridges and Barriers written by Eddie Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent decades have seen sub-Saharan Africa decline in both economic and human terms. The rich North has responded with a barrage of well-publicized initiatives, from pop concerts to international commitments on debt relief, aid, trade and good governance. Among the complex of factors necessary to sustain economic and human development, education receives little media coverage, although it is crucial. However, education must be effective. This book argues that in 'Anglophone' Africa, education is not effective because of the use of English, rather than children's first languages, both as the medium of instruction, and also as the language in which children are first taught to read. Research is presented from Malawi and Zambia, countries with contrasting language policies, using evidence from tests in English and African languages, small-group discussions and classroom observation. The findings show that English-medium policies in Africa do not give students any advantage in English over first-language policies, while the use of English discriminates against girls and rural children. The book concludes that much education in Africa is a barrier rather than a bridge to learning because of the prevailing language ideology, which has resulted in massive over-estimation of the value of English. While appropriate language policies alone will not solve education and development difficulties in Africa, they do have a positive contribution to make. The evidence presented here suggests they are failing to make that contribution.

Giving Space to African Voices

Author : Zehlia Babaci-Wilhite
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9462097348
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Giving Space to African Voices written by Zehlia Babaci-Wilhite and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets out to bring voices of the South to the debate on localization of education and makes the case that it should be considered a right in education. Despite all the scientifically-based evidence on the improved quality of education through the use of a local language and local knowledge, English as a language of instruction and “Western” knowledge based curriculum continue to be used at all educational levels in many developing nations. This means that in many African countries, the goal of rights to education is becoming increasingly remote, let alone that of rights in education. With this understanding and with the awareness of the education challenges of millions of children throughout Africa, the authors argue that local curriculum through local languages needs to be valued and to be preserved, and that children need to be prepared for the world in a language that promotes understanding. The authors make a clear case that policy makers are in a position to work towards a quality education for all as part of a more comprehensive right-based approach. We owe it to the children of the South to offer the best quality education possible in order to achieve social justice.

Schooling and Education in Africa

Author : George Jerry Sefa Dei
Publisher : Africa World Press
ISBN 13 : 9781592210039
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Schooling and Education in Africa written by George Jerry Sefa Dei and published by Africa World Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the Ghanian schooling experience as a case study, this book explores how research can contribute to the development of a body of knowledge for educational change in Africa. Education in Africa is often said to be in a crisis' caused in part by the colonial legacy, but also due to inappropriate and uncontextualised current educational policies in relation to local human conditions and African realities. This book offers a critical analysis of current educational reform strategies and the actual practice of reform in an African context.'