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Language Education Policies and Inequality in Africa: Cross-National Empirical Evidence
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Coyne, Gary – Comparative Education Review, 2015
This article examines the relationship between inequality and education through the lens of colonial language education policies in African primary and secondary school curricula. The languages of former colonizers almost always occupy important places in society, yet they are not widely spoken as first languages, meaning that most people depend…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Language of Instruction, Foreign Policy, Disadvantaged