Decolonising Multilingualism In Africa

Author : Finex Ndhlovu,Leketi Makalela
Publisher : Multilingual Matters Limited
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1788923383

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Decolonising Multilingualism in Africa by Finex Ndhlovu,Leketi Makalela Pdf

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 under the aegis of colonial modernity and pretensions of universal epistemic relevance. The book contributes new points of method, theory and interpretation that will advance scholarly conversations on decolonial epistemology by introducing the notion of coloniality of language - a summary term that describes the ways in which notions of language and multilingualism in post-colonial societies remain colonial. The authors begin the process of mapping out what a socially realistic notion of multilingualism would look like if we took into account the voices of marginalised and ignored African communities of practice - both on the African continent and in the diasporas.

Author : Finex Ndhlovu,Leketi Makalela
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781788923378

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Decolonising Multilingualism in Africa by Finex Ndhlovu,Leketi Makalela Pdf

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 under the aegis of colonial modernity and pretensions of universal epistemic relevance. The book contributes new points of method, theory and interpretation that will advance scholarly conversations on decolonial epistemology by introducing the notion of coloniality of language – a summary term that describes the ways in which notions of language and multilingualism in post-colonial societies remain colonial. The authors begin the process of mapping out what a socially realistic notion of multilingualism would look like if we took into account the voices of marginalised and ignored African communities of practice – both on the African continent and in the diasporas.

Author : Alison Phipps
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781788924078

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Decolonising Multilingualism by Alison Phipps Pdf

What if my own multilingualism is simply that of one who is fluent in way too many colonial languages? If we are going to do this, if we are going to decolonise multilingualism, let’s do it as an attempt at a way of doing it. If we are going to do this, let’s cite with an eye to decolonising. If we are going to do this then let’s improvise and devise. This is how we might learn the arts of decolonising. If we are going to do this then we need different companions. If we are going to do this we will need artists and poetic activists. If we are going to do this, let’s do it in a way which is as local as it is global; which affirms the granulations of the way peoples name their worlds. Finally, if we are going to do this, let’s do it multilingually.

Author : Elizabeth C. Zsiga,One Tlale Boyer,Ruth Kramer
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781626161535

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Languages in Africa by Elizabeth C. Zsiga,One Tlale Boyer,Ruth Kramer Pdf

People in many African communities live within a series of concentric circles when it comes to language. In a small group, a speaker uses an often unwritten and endangered mother tongue that is rarely used in school. A national indigenous language—written, widespread, sometimes used in school—surrounds it. An international language like French or English, a vestige of colonialism, carries prestige, is used in higher education, and promises mobility—and yet it will not be well known by its users. The essays in Languages in Africa explore the layers of African multilingualism as they affect language policy and education. Through case studies ranging across the continent, the contributors consider multilingualism in the classroom as well as in domains ranging from music and film to politics and figurative language. The contributors report on the widespread devaluing and even death of indigenous languages. They also investigate how poor teacher training leads to language-related failures in education. At the same time, they demonstrate that education in a mother tongue can work, linguists can use their expertise to provoke changes in language policies, and linguistic creativity thrives in these multilingual communities.

Author : Ruth W. Ndung’u,Martin C. Njoroge,Daniel O. Orwenjo
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443869607

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Multilingualism and Education in Africa by Ruth W. Ndung’u,Martin C. Njoroge,Daniel O. Orwenjo Pdf

This book is a must-read for every language teaching professional and researcher working in a multilingual context. Multilingualism and Education in Africa: The State of the State of the Art is an up-to-date exploration and wide-ranging review of the symbiotic relationship between multilingualism and education in Africa. The African continent is rich in languages. Most of her inhabitants are multilingual and many of the nations have embraced multilingual education. This book examines multilingualism in education from three broad perspectives: multilingualism and language in education policy in Africa; multilingualism as an educational resource in Africa; and attitudes and challenges of multilingualism and education in Africa. The book’s nineteen chapters discuss these three perspectives from East, West, Central and South Africa. All the contributors are leading authorities in multilingualism and education. The chapters combine a wide range of viewpoints based on theoretical, empirical and personal experiences. The reader is left with a deeper understanding of the unique features of multilingualism and education in Africa that have seldom been addressed by those who experience them first-hand. The book demonstrates successful practices in multilingualism and education; showing how African nations have determined what works for them without ignoring challenges such as policies on paper, attitudes towards African languages and limited resources. The benefits of multilingual education override the challenges. The book’s extensive coverage makes it an important resource for scholars and policy makers in the field of multilingualism and education. Overall, this book represents an important contribution to an important subject in education globally. The editors have provided an introductory overview to the book and commentaries on the three sections.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1920294198

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SHIFTING LENSES by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Publisher : East African Publishers
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9966466843

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Decolonising the mind by Ngugi wa Thiong'o Pdf

Author : Angel Lin,Peter W. Martin
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1853598240

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Decolonisation, Globalisation by Angel Lin,Peter W. Martin Pdf

This volume brings together scholars from around the world to juxtapose the voices of classroom participants alongside the voices of ruling elites with the aim of critically linking language policy issues with classroom practice in a range of contexts. The volume is suitable for postgraduate students, researchers and educators in a range of areas.

Author : Zannie Bock,Christopher Stroud
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781350049116

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Language and Decoloniality in Higher Education by Zannie Bock,Christopher Stroud Pdf

Language and Decoloniality in Higher Education brings together a collection of diverse papers that address, from various angles, the issue of decoloniality, language and transformation in higher education. It reflects the authors' cumulative years of experience as educators in higher education in different southern contexts. Distilled as case studies, the authors use a range of decolonial lenses to reflect on questions of knowledge, language and learning, and to build a reflexive praxis of decoloniality through multilingualism. Besides a number of decolonial persepectives which readers will be familiar with, this volume also explores a conceptual framework, Linguistic Citizenship, developed over the past two decades by scholars in southern Africa. In this collection, Linguistic Citizenship is used as a lens to 'think beyond' the inherited colonial matrices of language which have shaped this region (and many other southern contexts) for centuries, and to 're-imagine' multilingualism – and semiotics, more broadly – as a transformative resource in the broader project of social justice. Although each chapter has firm roots in the South African context, these studies have much to offer others in their 'quest for better worlds'. Of particular interest to global scholars are the authors' recounts of how they have grappled with leveraging the country's multilingual resources in the project of promoting academic access and success in the face of historical hierarchies of language and social power.

Author : Pierpaolo Di Carlo,Jeff Good
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781498588966

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African Multilingualisms by Pierpaolo Di Carlo,Jeff Good Pdf

Although multilingualism is the norm in the day-to-day lives of most sub-Saharan Africans, multilingualism in settings outside of cities has so far been under-explored. This gap is striking when considering that in many parts of Africa, individual multilingualism was widespread long before the colonial period and centuries before the continent experienced large-scale urbanization. The edited collection African Multilingualisms fills this gap by presenting results from recent and ongoing research based on fieldwork in rural African environments as well as environments characterized by contact between urban and rural communities of speakers. The contributors—mostly Africans themselves, including a number of emerging scholars—present findings that both complement and critique current scholarship on African multilingualism. In addition, new methods and tools are introduced for the study of multilingualism in rural settings, alongside illustrations of the kinds of results that they yield. African Multilingualisms reveals an impressive diversity in the features of local language ideologies, multilingual behaviors, and the relationship between language and identity.

Author : Colin Reilly,Feliciano Chimbutane,John Clegg,Casmir Rubagumya,Elizabeth J. Erling
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000998085

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Multilingual Learning by Colin Reilly,Feliciano Chimbutane,John Clegg,Casmir Rubagumya,Elizabeth J. Erling Pdf

This edited volume provides the follow up to Erling et al.’s (2021) Multilingual Learning and Language Supportive Pedagogies in Sub-Saharan Africa. The strategies put forward in Volume 1 included multilingual pedagogies that allow students to draw on their full linguistic repertoires, translanguaging and other language supportive pedagogies. While there is great traction in the pedagogical strategies proposed in Volume 1, limited progress has been made in terms of multilingual education in SSA. Thus, the main focus of this follow-up volume is to explore the question of why former colonial languages and monolingual approaches continue to be used as the dominant languages of education, even when we have multilingual pedagogies and materials that could and do work and despite substantial evidence that learners have difficulties when taught in a language they do not understand. This book offers perspectives to answer this question through focusing on the internal and external pressures which impact the capacity for implementing multilingual strategies in educational contexts at regional, national, and community levels. Chapters provide insights into how to better understand and work within these contemporary constraints and challenge dominant monoglossic discourses which inhibit the implementation of multilingual education in SSA. The volume focuses on three main areas which have proven to be stumbling blocks to the effective implementation of multilingual education to date, namely: Assessment, Ideology and Policy. An insightful collection that will be of great interest to academics, researchers, and practitioners in the fields of language education, language-in-education policy and educational assessments in the wide range of multilingual contexts in Africa.

Author : Claus Altmayer,Ekkehard Wolff
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Africa
ISBN : 3631632312

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Africa by Claus Altmayer,Ekkehard Wolff Pdf

The book presents a collection of papers in English, French and German, which touch on a wide variety of cultural, political, and educational ramifications of multilingualism in Africa. Apart from the general introduction, all contributions stem from African scholars representing their inside perspective on matters. The contributions refer to sociolinguistic situations primarily in Benin, Kenya, Mali, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan and Togo. They deal with aspects of language contact and language change, language empowerment and protection of linguistic diversity, linguistic landscape and language legitimization, regional integration, HIV/AIDS communication, and language issues in education from primary to tertiary level. A special sub-focus is on the teaching of foreign languages such as German in Africa. The book contains 12 contributions in English, three in French, and two in German.

Author : Carolyn McKinney,Pam Christie
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788929264

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Decoloniality, Language and Literacy by Carolyn McKinney,Pam Christie Pdf

Through a range of unconventional genres, representations of data, and dialogic, reflective narratives alongside more traditional academic genres, this book engages with contexts of decoloniality and border thinking in the Global South. It addresses processes of knowledge production and participation in the highly divided and unequal schooling and higher education system in South Africa, and highlights the consequences of the monolingual myth in post-colonial education, demonstrating opportunities for learning provided by translanguaging. It explores both embodied, multimodal and multilingual instances of knowledge-making in teaching and teacher education that take place outside but alongside formal classroom, lecture and seminar modes, and the positionality and learning experiences of teacher educators in science, literacy and language across the curriculum. The book is not only transdisciplinary but also captures the learning that takes place beyond the borders of disciplines and formal classroom spaces.

Author : Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis,Irina Turner,Abraham Brahima
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000328561

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Decolonisation of Higher Education in Africa by Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis,Irina Turner,Abraham Brahima Pdf

This book discusses the status and importance of decolonisation and indigenous knowledge in academic research, teaching, and learning programmes and beyond. Taking practical lessons from a range of institutions in Africa, the book argues that that local and global sciences are culturally equal and capable of synergistic complementarity and then integrates the concept of hybrid science into discourses on decolonisation. The chapters argue for a cross-cultural dialogue between different epistemic traditions and the accommodation 'Indigenous' knowledge systems in higher education. Bringing together critical scholars, teaching and administrating academics from different disciplines, the chapters provide alternative conceptual outlooks and practical case-based perspectives towards decolonised study environments. This book will be of interest to researchers of decolonisation, postcolonial studies, higher education studies, political studies, African studies, and philosophy.

Author : Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju,Josef Schmied,Bert van Pinxteren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3736966210

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Language of Education and Development in Africa by Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju,Josef Schmied,Bert van Pinxteren Pdf