Multilingualism: an African advantage: a paradigm shift in African language of instruction policies
"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 t...
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Cape Town, South Africa
Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society
2009
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| Summary: | "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 |
| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references |
| Physical Description: | VII, 278 S. |
| ISBN: | 9781920447304 192044730X |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
vii
Introduction
1
1.
The Adoption of The Western Paradigm of Bilingual
Teaching
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Why Does It Not Fit The African Situation?
Birgit Brock-Utne 18
2.
My Journey To and Through a Multilingual Landscape
Adama
Ouatte
52
3.
Conceptions and Challenges in Multilingual Education
Paradigms for African Languages
Alfred Mtenje
62
4.
English as Medium of Education in Africa: Implementing
Bilingualism in a Non-Diglossic Context
Edward Kembo-Sure
79
5.
Towards Multilingual Models of Education in South Africa
Felix
Banda
102
6.
Time for a Paradigm Shift?
Halla Holmarsdottir
119
7.
The Mother Tongue in Learning and Teaching as a Linguistic-
Human Right
Lazarus M.
Miti
148
8.
Unpacking the Language of Instruction Myth: Toward
Progressive Language Policies in Africa
Leketi Mattatela
170
9.
From a Eurocentric to an Afrocentric Perspective on
Language of Instruction in the African Context
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A View from Within
Moshi Kimizi
195
MULTILINGUALISM AND EDUCATION IN AFRICA
10.
English Only versus Bilingual Education in Atrica: With a Focus
on Tanzania
Martha A. S. Qorro
219
11.
Awakening Sleeping Languages: Language Practices in
Southern Africa
Silvester R. Simango
237
12.
A Tale of Two Cities: Trends in Multilingualism in Two African
Cities: The Cases ot Nima-Accra and Katatura-Windhoek
Kwesi Kwaa
Prah
250
Contributors
275
CASAS
Book Series List
276
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