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Books & Monographs
Neville Alexander: Language Policy and National Unity in South Africa/Azania
Cape Town: Buchu Books, 1989. >>>
Birgit Brock-Utne: Whose Education for All? The Recolonization of the African Mind
New York: Falmer Press, 2000. This book examines the new donor concept "education for all" which was coined at a World Bank initiated conference in 1990 in Jomtien, Thailand. What does "education for all" really mean? The battle over the concept going on at the conference is described. What has happened since? Where in the education sector in Africa have the donors put their money? They have, through the aid they give, the power to define the concept. There is reason to claim that "education for all" really has become "schooling for some". Schooling meaning a formal primary schooling of a Western type with curriculum dependency on the West, examinations and text-books from the West and a strengthening of Euro languages. A quadrangled building has been erected in a village of round huts. >>>
Birgit Brock-Utne: Language of Instruction in Tanzania and South Africa
With Zubeida Desai and Martha Qorro, Dar es Salaam: E & D Publishers, 2003. The research project LOITASA (Language Of Instruction in Tanzania and South Africa) addresses key issues around the changing educational policies in Tanzania and South South Africa epecialy when it comes to the language in education policies. >>>
Abdullah Kalid: The Liberation of Swahili: From European Appropriation
Nairobi: East African Literature Bureau, 1977. >>>
Kwesi Kwaa Prah: Mother Tongue for Scientific and Technological Development in Africa
Bonn: German Foundation for International Development, 1993. >>>
D. Laitin: Politics, Language and Thought: The Somali Experience
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977. >>>
Jeanette Malherbe (Ed): Decolonizing the mind
Proceedings of the second colloquiem on African Philosophy held at the University of South Arica, Pretoria, October 1995, published 1996. >>>
Mazrui/Mazrui: The Power of Babel - Language and Governance in the African Experience
James Currey/E.A.E.P./Fountain Publ./David Philip Publ./University of Chicago Press, 1998. >>>
Ngugi wa Thiong'o: Decolonising the Mind. The Politics of Language in African Literature
Nairobi/Portsmouth/: Heinemann, 1986. >>>
Adama Ouane (ed): Vers une culture multilingue de l'education
Hamburg: Institut de l'UNESCO pour l'Education, 1995. >>>
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas: Bilingualism or not the education of minorities
Clevedon, Avon: Multilingual Matters, 1984. >>>
Skutnabb-Kangas/Cummins (Eds.): Minority education. From shame to struggle
Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 1988. >>>
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas (Ed.): Multilingualism for all
Lisse: Swets & Zeitlinger, 1995. >>>
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas: Language, Literacy and Minorities
London: The Minority Rights Group, 1990. >>>