Decolonising multilingualism in Africa: recentering silenced voices from the Global South

Preface -- Myths we live by: multilingualism, colonial inventions -- Unsettling colonial roots of multilingualism -- Unsettling multilingualism in language and literacy education -- Decolonising multilingualism in higher education -- Decolonising multilingualism in national language policies -- Afri...

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Hauptverfasser: Ndhlovu, Finex 1970- (VerfasserIn), Makalela, Leketi (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit, PA Multilingual Matters [2021]
Schriftenreihe:Critical language and literacy studies 26
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Zusammenfassung:Preface -- Myths we live by: multilingualism, colonial inventions -- Unsettling colonial roots of multilingualism -- Unsettling multilingualism in language and literacy education -- Decolonising multilingualism in higher education -- Decolonising multilingualism in national language policies -- African vehicular cross border languages, multilingualism discourse -- African multilingualism, immigrants, diasporas -- Multilingualism from below: languaging with seven year old -- Recentering silenced lingualisms and voices.
"This book interrogates and problematises African multilingualism as it is currently understood in language education and research. It challenges the enduring colonial matrices of power hidden within mainstream conceptions of multilingualism that have been propagated in the Global North and then exported to the Global South"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:xviii, 189 Seiten Diagramme
ISBN:9781788923347
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