[lg policy] Book: Multilingualism in Education and Communities in Southern Africa

[Harold Schiffman]

Forwarded From:  edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu


**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.



INQUIRIES ABOUT BOOK ORDERS should be addressed to: UBTROMSO at mopipi.ub.bw






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