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Hurst-Harosh, Ellen – Africa Education Review, 2020
African Urban Youth Languages (AUYLs) are increasingly coming under the spotlight of linguists and sociolinguists across the continent, who are investigating their relationship to standard and/or vernacular varieties. Simultaneously, they are being discussed by educators and education researchers, although little has yet been published in this…
Descriptors: African Languages, Language Usage, Language Minorities, Urban Schools
Ball, Arnetha, Ed.; Tyson, Cynthia A., Ed. – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2011
"Studying Diversity in Teacher Education" is a collaborative effort by experts seeking to elucidate one of the most important issues facing education today. First, the volume examines historically persistent, yet unresolved issues in teacher education and presents research that is currently being done to address these issues. Second, it…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Student Diversity, Cultural Pluralism
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Finlayson, Rosalie; Slabbert, Sarah – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2003
The status of the current standard African languages has been seriously undermined by factors such as the association of the standardisation process with colonial and neo-colonial structures, the lack of function of the standards and the rise of high status non-standard urban varieties. This paper describes the process leading to and some…
Descriptors: African Languages, Urban Schools, Competition, Foreign Countries