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State-Building and Multilingual Education in Africa

Autor Ericka A. Albaugh
en Limba Engleză Paperback – iul 2015
How do governments in Africa make decisions about language? What does language have to do with state-building, and what impact might it have on democracy? This manuscript provides a longue durée explanation for policies toward language in Africa, taking the reader through colonial, independence, and contemporary periods. It explains the growing trend toward the use of multiple languages in education as a result of new opportunities and incentives. The opportunities incorporate ideational relationships with former colonizers as well as the work of language NGOs on the ground. The incentives relate to the current requirements of democratic institutions, and the strategies leaders devise to win elections within these constraints. By contrasting the environment faced by African leaders with that faced by European state-builders, it explains the weakness of education and limited spread of standard languages on the continent. The work combines constructivist understanding about changing preferences with realist insights about the strategies leaders employ to maintain power.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781107696655
ISBN-10: 1107696658
Pagini: 336
Ilustrații: 23 b/w illus. 1 map 15 tables
Dimensiuni: 152 x 228 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

1. Introduction; 2. Language and education in Africa under mission and colonial influence; 3. Language choices in independent African states; 4. Opportunities for policy change: ideas, materials, and advocacy networks; 5. Incentives for policy change: ruler strategies for maintaining power; 6. Language, education, and 'democratization' in Cameroon; 7. Language and contention - violence and participation in contemporary African politics; 8. Conclusion; Appendix A; Appendix B.

Recenzii

'This is an extraordinary book in its originality, scope, detail, and thorough empirical dimensions. I have no doubt of its importance, as it uses language policy to make a broader statement about the nature and pitfalls of state construction in Africa.' Pierre Englebert, Pomona College
'This is a book that should be of strong theoretical and empirical interest to many scholars and practitioners from a wide number of disciplines. Ericka A. Albaugh explains the puzzling divergence of educational policy making … Albaugh has not only identified a very interesting empirical puzzle in terms of these changing educational policies over time in Africa, but she has also effectively located this variation in a broader theoretical context of state-building and democracy. Albaugh draws creatively on a collection of original and primary data sources to make an intriguing argument that multilingual policies do not have a straightforwardly positive or negative impact on democracy. Rather, analysts must distinguish between the varied short- versus long-term consequences of these policies in different political contexts.' Lauren M. MacLean, Indiana University
'Theoretically rich, well documented, and sophisticated in its argumentation, Albaugh's book is one of the finest available on the origins of public policy and the process of state-building in Africa.' Nicolas van de Walle, Foreign Affairs

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Descriere

This book explains why many governments in Africa are including African languages alongside European languages as media of instruction in elementary schools.