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Language, Literacy, Power and Democracy in Africa
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Brock-Utne, Birgit – Education and Society, 2015
The May 2013 Report of the High Level Panel, established by the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in 2012 to advise on the global development framework beyond 2015 underscored that rising inequity is a growing worldwide concern. The high level panel refers to a study of 28 countries in Africa which found that more than one out of every three pupils…
Descriptors: Democracy, Literacy, Civil Rights, Second Languages
Language Policies and Practices in Tanzania and South Africa: Problems and Challenges
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Brock-Utne, Birgit; Holmarsdottir, Halla B. – International Journal of Educational Development, 2004
The authors of the present article are engaged in a research project funded by the Norwegian Research Council. In this project the language policies of Tanzania and South Africa, as well as the practices of these policies in the classroom are analyzed. The article gives some preliminary results from the project. While the language policies of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, African Languages, Official Languages
The Language Question in Namibian Schools.
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Brock-Utne, Birgit – International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift fuer Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue Internationale de l'Education, 1997
Builds on a consultancy report dealing primarily with the status of the African languages in Namibian schools after Independence in 1990. Contains a description of the Namibian languages, the language policy, and the status of the languages in Namibian schools. (42 citations) (VWC)
Descriptors: African Languages, Black Education, Curriculum, Educational Change