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Makoni, Sinfree; Makoni, Busi – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2007
In this article, the authors briefly describe key issues central to what Spring (2007) refers to as the "industrial-consumer paradigm" and the role of English as the global language characterized by what Harvey (1990) called "time and space compression." The authors also comment and provide a critique of some of its primary…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, Global Approach, Foreign Countries, Consumer Economics
Brock-Utne, Birgit, Ed.; Skattum, Ingse, Ed. – Symposium Books, 2009
The theme of this book cuts across disciplines. Contributors to this volume are specialized in education and especially classroom research as well as in linguistics, most being transdisciplinary themselves. Around 65 sub-Saharan languages figure in this volume as research objects: as means of instruction, in connection with teacher training,…
Descriptors: African Languages, Language Planning, Multicultural Education, Beginning Reading