Book: Multilingualism in Education and Communities in Southern Africa

[Francis Hult]

**NEW BOOK**

 

TITLE: Multilingualism in Education and Communities in Southern Africa

EDITORS: Gregory Kamwendo, Dudu Jankie & Andy Chebanne

YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 2009

PUBLISHER: UBTROMSO/University of Botswana

ISBN: 978 99912-0-862-6

 

Multilingualism in Education and Communities in Southern Africa is an edited volume consisting of twenty-one chapters. Sixteen of the chapters are revised versions of papers that were presented at a regional conference on multilingualism in education in Southern Africa, held in Gaborone, Botswana, in 2005. Multilingualism, as the literature on the subject points out, poses both challenges and opportunities to language planners and policy makers. But more often, the challenges outnumber the opportunities. It is from this background that contributors to the volume discuss multilingualism in the context of the education domain. 

 

The volume is divided into seven thematic sections, namely: Introducing the debates (Section 1); Mother tongue education (Section 2); Adult literacy (Section 3); Sign language in education (Section 4); Linguistic marginalization of the San (Section 5); Development of educational materials/resources (Section 6); and Conclusion (Section 7). The book raises salient and critical issues that are of interest and relevance to a wide range of stakeholders: educational language planners and policy makers, language educators and their students, curriculum specialists, language researchers, language and human rights activists, funding agencies, politicians, publishers, parents and others.

 

ABOUT THE EDITORS

Gregory Kamwendo is Associate Professor of Language Education in the Department of Languages and Social Sciences Education in the Faculty of Education, University of Botswana.

 

Dudu Jankie is Lecturer in Language Education in the Department of Languages and Social Sciences Education in the Faculty of Education, University of Botswana.

 

Andy Chebanne is Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the Centre for the Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS), Cape Town, South Africa.

 

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