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Integrating Refugee Students into Ugandan Higher Education: Language, Othering and Everyday Enactments of Participation
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Nambi, Rebecca; Najjuma, Rovincer; Gallagher, Michael – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2023
This paper examines the everyday enactments of participation of refugee students in Ugandan higher education emerging from a research project (2020-2022). Habermas's Theory of Communicative Action was used to determine how students responded to the dominant languages, further noting the acts of othering that occur throughout this process that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Refugees, Personal Autonomy
Promoting Early Literacy and Student Investment in the African Storybook
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Stranger-Johannessen, Espen; Norton, Bonny – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2019
Research has found that reading achievement is strongly associated with opportunities for children to engage actively with print. This article addresses research on a digital initiative called the African Storybook, which provides a website with over 1,000 openly licensed children's picture storybooks in more than 150 African languages, as well as…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, African Culture, Story Reading, Childrens Literature
Working with Parents to Promote Children's Literacy: A Family Literacy Project in Uganda
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Parry, Kate; Kirabo, Elizabeth; Nakyato, Gorreth – Multilingual Education, 2014
This article discusses the importance of family practices to children's acquisition of literacy and describes attempts to influence such practices through the institution of family literacy programmes. One of these is the Family Literacy Project in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, which both served as a model and provided material for a similar…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Literacy, Literacy Education, African Languages
Sources for the Study of East African Cultures and Development; A Bibliography of Social Scientific Bibliographies, Abstracts, Reference Works, Catalogues, Directories, Writings on Archives, Bibliographies, Book Production, Libraries, and Museums, With Special Reference to Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda 1946-1966 (1967-1968).
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Molnos, Angela, Comp. – 1968
The East African Research Information Centre (EARIC), sponsored by the East African Academy and financed by the Ford Foundation, is a new institution intended to promote efficient information exchange within the field of the social sciences and development. Its immediate objectives are to collect, collate and disseminate information on past and…
Descriptors: African Culture, African Languages, Bibliographies, Cultural Centers
Lexicostatistics and the Mystery of So Ethnolinguistic Relations
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Laughlin, Charles D., Jr. – Anthropological Linguistics, 1975
Describes attempts to determine the origin of the So tribe, an East African people, by means of comparing lexical data with those of other East African language groups. Comparisons are made between So and geographically related groups, possibly related tribal migrations, and various other East African languages. (CLK)
Descriptors: African Culture, African Languages, Comparative Analysis, Diachronic Linguistics
Language Problems in Africa; A Bibliography (1946-1967) and Summary of the Present Situation, with Special Reference to Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.
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Molnos, Angela, Comp. – 1969
The present Information Circular covering the language situation in East Africa has been prepared as a bibliographic reference tool for specialists, universities, and libraries. The introductory section describes the work of EARIC (East African Research Information Centre), which is sponsored by the East African Academy and financed by the Ford…
Descriptors: African Culture, African Languages, Bibliographies, Creoles