Language-in-Education Policies and Practices in Africa with a Special Focus on Tanzania and South Africa - Insights from Research in Progress

Decolonisation, Globalisation: Language-in-Education Policy and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 173-193

  Brock Utne, Birgit ^a  

^a Pbox 1092 Blindern   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 85050188356     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

References (32)

1. Brock-Utne, B. (1995) The teaching of Namibian languages in the formal education system of Namibia. National Institute for Educational Development (NIED), Ministry of Basic Education and Culture, Namibia.
2. Brock-Utne, B. (1997) Language of instruction in Namibian schools. International Review of Education 43 (2/3), 241-60.
3. Brock-Utne, B. (2000) Whose Education for All? Recolonization of the African Mind. New York: Falmer Press.
4. Brock-Utne, B. (2001) Education for all - In whose language? Oxford Review of Education 27 (1), 15-134.
5. Brock-Utne, B. and Holmarsdottir, H.B. (2003) Language policies and practices in Africa - some preliminary results from a research project in Tanzania and South Africa. In B. Brock-Utne, Z. Desai and M. Qorro (eds) (pp. 80-102) The Language of Instruction in Tanzania and South Africa (LOITASA). Dar es Salaam: E and D Publishers.
6. Chick, K. (1996) Safe-talk. Collusion in apartheid education. In H. Coleman (ed.) Society and the Language Classroom (pp. 21-39). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
7. Ferguson, G. (2000) The medium of instruction in African education. The role of the applied linguist. In S. Makoni and N. Kamwangamalu (eds) Language and Institutions in Africa. (pp. 95-111). Casas Book Series No.5. Cape Town: The Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS).
8. Grimes, B. (ed.) (1992) Ethnologue: Languages of the World (12th edn). Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
9. Heller, M. and Martin-Jones, M. (eds) (2001) Voices of Authority: Education and Linguistic Difference. Westport: Ablex Publishing.
10. Kaye, S. and Nystrom, B. (1971) Education and colonialism in Africa. Comparative Education Review 25 (2), 240-59.
11. Klaus, D. (2001) The use of indigenous languages in early basic education in Papua NewGuinea:Amodel for elsewhere? Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society held in Washington DC. 17 March 2001.
12. Makoni, S.B. (2000) In the beginning was the missionary’s word: The European invention of an African language. The case of Shona in Zimbabwe. In K.K. Prah (ed.) Between Distinction and Extinction. The Harmonisation and Standardisation of African Languages (pp. 157-65). Casas Book Series No.1. Cape Town: The Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS).
13. Mwinsheikhe, H.M. (2001) Science and the language barrier: Using Kiswahili as a medium of instruction in Tanzania secondary schools as a strategy of improving student participation and performance in science. Master of Philosophy thesis. University of Oslo: Institute for Educational Research. Spring Term 2001.
14. Mwinsheikhe, H.M. (2002) Science and the language barrier: Using Kiswahili as a medium of instruction in Tanzania secondary schools as a strategy of improving student participation and performance in science. Education in Africa. 10. Report No. 1. Oslo: Institute for Educational Research.
15. Mwinsheikhe, H.M. (2003) Science and the language barrier: Using Kiswahili as a medium of instruction in Tanzania secondary schools as a strategy of improving student participation and performance in science. In B. Brock-Utne, Z. Desai and M. Qorro (eds) (2003) The Language of Instruction in Tanzania and South Africa (LOITASA) (pp. 129-49), Dar es Salaam: E and D Publishers.
16. Myers-Scotton, C. (1993) Duelling Languages: Grammatical structure in code-switching. Oxford. Clarendon Press.
17. Ndayipfukamiye, L. (1993) Code-switching in Burundi primary classrooms. Working Paper Series. Lancaster University, England.
18. Obanya, P. (1980) Research on Alternative Teaching in Africa. In E.A. Yoloye and KH. Flechsig (eds) Educational Research for Development. (pp. 67-112). Bonn: Deutsche Stiftung für Internationale Entwicklung.
19. Osaki, K.M. (1991) Factors influencing the use of the environment in science teaching: A study of biology teaching in Tanzania. Doctor of Philosophy Thesis. Edmonton, Alberta.
20. Prah, K.K. (ed.) (2000) Between Distinction and Extinction. The Harmonisation and Standardisation of African Languages. Casas Book Series No.1. Cape Town: The Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS).
21. Prah, K.K. (ed.) (2002) Rehabilitating African Languages. Casas Book Series No.18. Cape Town: The Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS).
22. Prah, K.K. (2003) Going native: Language of instruction for education, development and African emancipation. In B. Brock-Utne, Z. Desai and M. Qorro (eds) (2003) The Language of Instruction in Tanzania and South Africa (LOITASA) (pp. 14-35). Dar es Salaam: E and D Publishers.
23. Prophet, R. and Dow, J. (1994) Mother tongue language and concept development in science. A Botswana case study. Language, Culture and Curriculum 7 (3), 205-17.
24. Qorro, M. (2002) Language of instruction not determinant in quality education. The Guardian. Wednesday 29 May 2002. On www at http://www.ippmedia.com. Accessed 20.09.02.
25. Reh, M. and Heine, B. (1982) Sprachpolitik und Sprachplanung in Afrika. Hamburg: Buske.
26. Roy-Campbell, Z.M. (1998) Language as the repository of knowledge and culture: Deconstructing myths about African languages. Paper presented to the CIES annual conference in Buffalo, New York. 18-22 March.
27. Roy-Campbell, Z.M. (2000) The Language of schooling. Deconstructing myths about African languages. In S. Makoni and N. Kamwangamalu (eds) Language and Institutions in Africa (pp. 111-31). Casas Book Series No.5. Cape Town: The Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS).
28. Rubagumya, C. (2003) English-medium primary schools in Tanzania: A new ‘linguistic market’ in education? In B. Brock-Utne, Z. Desai and M. Qorro (eds) (2003) The Language of Instruction in Tanzania and South Africa (LOITASA) (pp. 149-70). Dar es Salaam: E and D Publishers.
29. Rubagumya, C., Jones, K. and Mwansoko, H. (1999) Language for learning and teaching in Tanzania. Unpublished paper.
30. Serpell, R. (1980) Linguistic flexibility in urban Zambian schoolchildren. In V. Teller and S.J. White (eds) Studies in Child Language and Multilingualism. Volume 345 (pp. 97-119). New York: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.
31. Tadadjeu, M. (1989) Voie Africaine. Esquisse du Communautarisme Africain. Cameroun: Club OUA.
32. Westley, D. (1992) Language and education in Africa: A select bibliography, 1980-1990. Comparative Education Review 36 (3), 355-68.