Product Description
Multilingualism, education and social integration – Belgium, Europe, South Africa, southern Africa
Authors: T du Plessis, P Cuvelier, L Teck
Format: Physical Hardcopy
This book describes the socio-political background to the different languages in education policies of selected countries, discusses different policy models and identifies weaknesses in current models.
Contents:
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Introduction
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PART I: Legal perspectives on language in education 1. Language rights in education: the international framework 2. South African law and policy on language in education
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PART II: Multilingualism, education and social integration in Belgium 3. Multilingualism, education and multicultural society: developments in Belgium 4. Which integration in which society? Belgian language politics in education
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PART III: Multilingualism, education and social integration in other European countries 5. From diversity to unity and back again? Teaching local languages in a linguistically unified France 6. Multilingualism, education and social integration in the migratory and regional context of Luxembourg 7. Language diversity and language education: an introduction to the Swiss model
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PART IV: Multilingualism, education and social integration in South Africa 8. Multilingualism and language-in-education policy in South Africa ? a historical overview 9. Rehabilitating mother-tongue and bilingual education – the role of civil society 10. Moving towards multilingualism in South African schools 11. Language-in-education policy in practice: a case study of a primary school in Khayelitsha, Cape Town 12. African Renaissance in South African schools: an exploration of selected features of a reconstructed school curriculum
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PART V: Multilingualism, education and social integration in other SADC countries 13. Language and education in Africa: emancipation or alienation 14. Bilingualism and education in Mozambique: the historical relationship between Portuguese and Mozambican languages 15. Language and education in Namibia
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