Download or read book Vers une culture multilingue de l ducation written by Adama Ouane and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Towards a Multilingual Culture of Education written by Adama Ouane and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the experiences of 16 countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America, the studies address the educational issues and problems faced by multilingual nations. The authors criticize the colonial heritage and argue for a pluralistic approach that integrates local languages and mother tongues into both formal and non-formal education.
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 362 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.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Language and Education written by Ruth Wodak and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1997 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Made up of eight volumes, the Encyclopedia of Language and Education is the first attempt at providing an overview of the subject.
Download or read book Revitalizing Minority Voices written by Renée DePalma and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whose voices are taken into account in language policy and planning and whose have been ignored or more actively silenced? This is the central question addressed in this book. What are the political and social factors that have helped to create these historical exclusions, in terms of endangerment and loss of traditional languages? What are the global influences on the local landscape of languages and linguistic rights? What are the implications for cultural heritage and identity? In analyzing these questions and reporting on research in an array of countries, the chapter authors also suggest ways forward toward designing more inclusive policies and practices in educational contexts, whether in the context of obligatory schooling or in less formal educational contexts. UNESCO estimates that at least 43% of the estimated 6000 languages spoken in the world are endangered. Such statistics remind us that the linguistic diversity that characterizes the human condition is a fragile thing, and that certain languages need to be cultivated if they are to survive into the 21st century and beyond. The chapters in this volume originated as presentations at the XV World Congress of Comparative Education Societies (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2013). They represent several global regions, namely Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. They provide analyses of language policy and politics at the local, regional, national and transnational levels, grass-roots linguistic revitalization initiatives, and the attitudes of minority and majority speakers toward minoritized languages and cultures and towards intercultural and multilingual education programs./div
Download or read book L importance de l ducation plurilingue et interculturelle pour une culture de la d mocratie written by Conseil de l'Europe and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le bon fonctionnement de toute démocratie dépend de l’inclusion et de l’intégration sociales qui, à leur tour, dépendent de la compréhension, du respect et de l’engagement à l’égard de la diversité linguistique et culturelle. Le Conseil de l’Europe préconise l’éducation plurilingue et interculturelle en tant que moyen d’atteindre ces objectifs. Cette recommandation s’appuie sur des documents antérieurs du Conseil de l’Europe pour définir les concepts clés, qui sous-tendent l’éducation plurilingue et interculturelle, et établit une liste exhaustive de mesures que les États membres sont invités à prendre. Tout en reconnaissant que la pleine mise en oeuvre de ces mesures nécessitera de nombreuses années de travail, la recommandation souligne que beaucoup de réalisations sont possibles à court terme dans les cadres politiques existants. Avec son exposé des motifs, cette recommandation est un texte clé pour les responsables de l’élaboration des politiques, des curriculums, du personnel enseignant, des professionnels chargés de la formation des enseignant·e·s, ainsi que pour les auteur·e·s de manuels scolaires, les organismes d’examen, les organisations de parents, les associations éducatives et les dirigeant·e·s de la société civile.
Download or read book Language and Development in Africa written by H. 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: Development is based on communication through language. With more than two thousand languages being used in Africa, language becomes a highly relevant factor in all sectors of political, social, cultural and economic life. This important sociolinguistic dimension hitherto remains underrated and under-researched in 'Western' mainstream development studies. The book discusses the resourcefulness of languages, both local and global, in view of the ongoing transformation of African societies as much as for economic development. From a novel 'applied African sociolinguistics' perspective it analyses the continuing effects of linguistic imperialism on postcolonial African societies, in particular regarding the educational sector, through imposed hegemonic languages such as Arabic and the ex-colonial languages of European provenance. It offers a broad interdisciplinary scientific approach to the linguistic dimensions of sociocultural modernisation and economic development in Africa, written for both the non-linguistically trained reader as much as for the linguistically trained researcher and language practitioner.
Download or read book Classe de langues et culture s vers l interculturalit written by Dominique Groux and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quelle est la place de la (des) culture(s) dans la classe de langues ? Quel enjeu représente l'ouverture sur les autres cultures dans la classe de langues ? Comment créer le désir d'entrer dans une nouvelle culture ? Par une approche de la culture littéraire ou artistique ?...
Download or read book Catalogue written by Unesco Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Whose Education For All written by Birgit Brock-Utne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1990, when the phrase "education for all" was first coined at the World Bank conference in Jomtien, Thailand, a battle has raged over its meaning and its impact on education in Africa. In this thought-provoking new volume, Dr. Brock-Utne argues that "education for all" really means "Western primary schooling for some, and none for others." Her incisive analysis demonstrates how this construct robs Africans of their indigenous knowledge and language, starves higher education in Africa, and thereby perpetuates Western dominion. In Dr. Brock-Utne's words, "A quadrangle building has been erected in a village of round huts."
Download or read book Systems of Education written by Sohan Modgil and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-28 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1 is concerned with the theoretical and conceptual framework for reflecting about values, culture and education and thus provides an introduction to the series as a whole. It provides state and policy level analysis across the world.
Download or read book Du plurilinguisme l cole written by Lambert-Félix Prudent and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travaux de chercheurs spécialistes des îles de l'Océan indien, des Antilles, de la Guyane, de l'Europe et de l'Amérique, sur la nécessité d'admettre le plurilinguisme à l'école et de le transformer en facteur de réussite scolaire. Étudie les politiques linguistiques et les démarches éducatives requises par les situations de plurilinguisme
Download or read book Non Europhone Intellectuals written by Ousmane Kane and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2012 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book was written as a working paper when I was Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa at Northwestern University"--Acknowledgements.
Download or read book Non Europhone Intellectuals written by Oumar Kane and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2012-09-05 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Arabic writing spans a period of eight hundred years in sub-Saharan Africa. Hundreds of thousands of manuscripts in Arabic or Ajami (African languages written with the Arabic script) are preserved in public libraries and private collections in sub-Saharan Africa. This Islamic Library includes historical, devotional, pedagogical, polemical and political writings, most of which have not yet been adequately studied. This book, Non-Europhone Intellectuals, studies the research carried out on the Islamic library and shows that Muslim intellectuals, in West Africa in particular, have produced huge literature in Arabic and Ajami. It is impossible to reconstitute this library completely. As the texts have existed for centuries and are mostly in the form of unpublished manuscripts, only some of them have been transmitted to us while others have perished because of poor conservation. Efforts toward collecting them continues and the documents collected thus far attest to an intense intellectual life and important debates on society that have been completely ignored by the overwhelming majority of Europhone intellectuals. During European colonial rule and after the independence of African nations, Islamic education experienced some neglect, but the Islamic scholarly tradition did not decline. On the contrary, it has prospered with the proliferation of modern Islamic schools and the rise of dozens of Islamic institutions of higher learning. In recent years, the field of Islamic studies in West Africa has continued to attract the attention of erudite scholars, notably in anthropology and history, who are investing in learning the languages and working on this Islamic archive. As more analytical works are done on this archive, there will be continued modification in terms of the debate on knowledge production in West Africa.
Download or read book Textbooks and Quality Learning for All written by Unesco and published by UNESCO. This book was released on 2006 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focused on the dual aspects of access and quality, this publication discusses the role of textbooks in facilitating quality education for all. The book consists of reviews of the international perspectives as well as case studies on Brazil, Russian Federation, and Rwanda. It also documents strategies that could help to optimise procedures of textbook development, production, and evaluation; enhance textbooks' pedagogical impact; improve teachers' selection of textbooks; and raise textbook supply efficiently.
Download or read book La Didactique des langues nationales written by Didier Mbouda and published by Editions Edilivre. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La didactique des langues nationales représente une innovation pédagogique qui permet à l’enseignant de mieux asseoir les premiers apprentissages scolaires de l’élève en contexte multilingue. Il lui donne ainsi un bon départ pour la vie. À travers l’approche équilibrée, l’apprentissage de la lecture-écriture s’effectue en un temps relativement court. Ainsi, au cours de ses premières années d’apprentissage, l’élève comprend simultanément ce qu’il lit et écrit. Après l’acquisition des compétences en lecture-compréhension-écriture, l’enseignant procède alors aux mécanismes de transfert. L’élève réinvestit dans la langue 2 ce qu’il a appris en langue 1. Ce transfert se fait tant au niveau formel que culturel, avec des similitudes et des différences. L’élève réalise ainsi un parcours scolaire réussi.
Download or read book Language Demography written by Francisco Moreno-Fernández and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language Demography presents, exemplifies, and develops linguistic concepts involved in demography and the demographic concepts involved in sociolinguistics. The first introductory guide of its kind, it is presented in a way that is accessible to non-specialists. The book includes numerous examples of the sources and types of data used in this field, as well as the various factors affecting language demography. Taking a global perspective supported by examples, it gives explanations of how demolinguistic analyses are performed and their main applications in relation to minority and majority languages. Language Demography will be of interest to students from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, from linguistics and modern languages to sociology, anthropology, and human geography.
