33.498, Books: Language, Education and Identity in Africa: van Pinxteren

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Subject: 33.498, Books: Language, Education and Identity in Africa: van Pinxteren

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Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2022 11:17:16
From: Janacy van Duijn Genet [lot at uva.nl]
Subject: Language, Education and Identity in Africa: van Pinxteren

 


Title: Language, Education and Identity in Africa 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/language-education-and-identity-in-africa 


Author: Bert van Pinxteren

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460933790 Pages: 309 Price: Europe EURO 35


Abstract:

Why has Africa not been doing so well and what is the way forward? This book
starts with the analysis of Vansina and Prah: the old cultural traditions in
Africa have been destroyed in colonial times; new ones are currently taking
shape, based in part in African languages. The book uses new insights gained
from Hofstede’s approach to cross-cultural psychology to show that such new
cultural traditions are indeed forming in Africa. These will be key to
Africa’s decolonization.

As Prah and others have argued, decolonization needs to address the problem
that almost all African countries continue to use a former colonial language
in secondary and higher education.

Using a quantitative comparative analysis, this study shows for the first time
that maintaining former colonial languages as medium of instruction will
become impossible to sustain. Over the next decade, more and more African
countries will have to move towards increased use of African languages.

Over the years, the choice of which African languages to use has vexed
researchers and policy makers. Using five principles, this study points to an
innovative way out of that conundrum. It demonstrates how all over the world,
designed languages can and do serve speakers of several discerned languages.
The book contains five brief case studies, showing how in fact using such
designed languages is a practical possibility in Africa as well.

Using African languages in education will also bolster the new, decolonized
cultural traditions that are already taking shape on the continent.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Applied Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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