Languages and education in africa
Subtitle: a comparative and transdisciplinary analysis
By: edited by Birit Brock-Utne & Ingse Skattum
Series: Bristol papers in education, comparative and international studies; Bristol papers in education
Publisher: Symposium Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781873927175
Subjects: Language policy; Language and languages; Language and education; Native language and education; Education; Education Africa
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

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