Description: Rethinking Bilingual Education in Postcolonial ContextsAuthor(s): Feliciano Chimbutane Format: Paperback Publisher: Channel View Publications Ltd, United Kingdom Imprint: Multilingual Matters ISBN-13: 9781847693631, 978-1847693631 Synopsis This book calls for critical adaptations when theories of bilingual education, based on practices in the North, are applied to the countries of the global South. For example, it challenges the assumption that transitional models necessarily lead to language shift and cultural assimilation. Taking an ethnographically-based narrative on the purpose and value of bilingual education in Mozambique as a starting point, it shows how, in certain contexts, even a transitional model may strengthen the vitality of local languages and associated cultures, instead of weakening them. The analysis is based on the view that communicative practices in the classroom influence and are influenced by institutional, local and societal processes. Within this framework, the book shows how education in low-status languages can play a role in social and cultural transformation, especially where post-colonial contexts are concerned.
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Book Title: Rethinking Bilingual Education in Postcolonial Contexts
Subject Area: Religious Sociology
Item Height: 210 mm
Item Width: 148 mm
Series: Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
Author: Feliciano Chimbutane
Publication Name: Rethinking Bilingual Education in Postcolonial Contexts
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Channel View Publications LTD
Subject: Strategy
Publication Year: 2011
Type: Study Guide
Item Weight: 274 g
Number of Pages: 200 Pages
