Decolonising multilingualism in Africa recentering silenced voices from the Global South

Preface -- Myths we live by: multilingualism, colonial inventions -- Unsettling colonial roots of multilingualism -- Unsettling multilingualism in language and literacy education -- Decolonising multilingualism in higher education -- Decolonising multilingualism in national language policies -- Afri...

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1. Verfasser: Ndhlovu, Finex (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Makalela, Leketi (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Bristol, Blue Ridge Summit, PA Multilingual Matters 2021
Schriftenreihe:Critical language and literacy studies 26
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Zusammenfassung:Preface -- Myths we live by: multilingualism, colonial inventions -- Unsettling colonial roots of multilingualism -- Unsettling multilingualism in language and literacy education -- Decolonising multilingualism in higher education -- Decolonising multilingualism in national language policies -- African vehicular cross border languages, multilingualism discourse -- African multilingualism, immigrants, diasporas -- Multilingualism from below: languaging with seven year old -- Recentering silenced lingualisms and voices.
"This book interrogates and problematises African multilingualism as it is currently understood in language education and research. It challenges the enduring colonial matrices of power hidden within mainstream conceptions of multilingualism that have been propagated in the Global North and then exported to the Global South"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:xviii, 189 Seiten
ISBN:9781788923347
978-1-78892-334-7
9781788923354
978-1-78892-335-4
9781788923361
9781788923378
9781788923385