Multilingualism
Subtitle: an African advantage : a paradigm shift in African language of instruction policies
By: edited by Kwesi Kwaa Prah, Birgit Brock-Utne
Contributors: Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society
Series: CASAS book series -- no. 67
Publisher: Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cape Town, South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9781920447304
Description: "Some of us have argued that without education through the mother tongue or another equally familiar African language at all levels of education there is no future for African development.The experience of post-colonial Asia and Western Europe point irrefutably to the inherent value in mother tongue education or at least education in popular, widely spoken, local languages. We have frequently argued that the prosperity and economic prowess of modern Asia is, in no small measure, attributable to the use of languages confidently understood, spoken and written by the overwhelming masses of the people"--Cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.