Kleifgen / Bond The Languages of Africa and the Diaspora

Educating for Language Awareness
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-1-78892-086-5
Verlag: Multilingual Matters
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 12, 312 Seiten

Reihe: New Perspectives on Language and Education

This book examines the social cost of linguistic exceptionalism for the education of speakers of nondominant/subordinated languages in Africa and the African diaspora. The contributors take the languages of Africa, the Caribbean, and the US as cases in point to illustrate the effects of exceptionalist beliefs that these languages are inadequate for instructional purposes. They describe contravening movements toward various forms of linguistic diversity both inside and outside of school settings across these regions. Different theoretical lenses and a range of empirical data are brought to bear on investigating the role of these languages in educational policies and practices. Collectively, the chapters in this volume make the case for a comprehensive language awareness to remedy the myths of linguistic exceptionalism and to advance the affirmative dimensions of linguistic diversity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kleifgen, Jo Anne

Bond, George C.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Mehrsprachigkeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Discourses of Linguistic Exceptionalism and Linguistic Diversity in Education - Jo Anne Kleifgen

Part 1: Language and Education in Africa

Introduction to Part 1 - George C. Bond

2. African Perspectives on Linguistic Diversity: Implications for Language Policy and Education - Sinfree Makoni and Barbara Trudell

3. Language in Education in Africa: Can Monolingual Policies Work in Multilingual Societies? - Casmir Rubagumya

4. Perspectives, Challenges and Prospects of African Languages in Education: A Case Study of Kiswahili in Tanzania - Peter Mtesigwa

5. Languages, Literacies, and Libraries: A View From Africa - Kate Parry

6. Street Setswana vs. School Setswana: Language Policies and the Forging of Identities in South African Classrooms - Susan E. Cook

Part 2: Language and Education in the Diaspora

Introduction to Part 2 - Jo Anne Kleifgen

7. Creole Exceptionalism and the (Mis-)Education of the Creole Speaker - Michel DeGraff

8. Political and Cultural Dimensions of Creole as a Regional Language in the French Antilles - Ellen M. Schnepel

9. Success or Failure? Language, Tracking, and Social Stratification of Anglophone Caribbean Students - Shondel Nero

10. Sierra Leonean and Liberian Students in ESL Programs in the US: The Role of Creole English - Christa de Kleine

11. Continued Marginalization: The Social Costs of Exceptionalism for African Refugee Learners of English - Doris S. Warriner

12. Linguistic Profiling, Education, and the Law Within and Beyond the African Diaspora - John Baugh

13. On Shallow Grammar: African American English and the Critique of Exceptionalism - Arthur K. Spears

14. African American English and the Public Interest - Walt Wolfram

15. Rockin' the Classroom: Using Hip Hop as an Educational Tool - Jon A. Yasin

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bond, George C.
George Clement Bond is the Director of the Center for African Education and William F. Russell Professor for Anthropology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. His interests include education and elite formation in the United States and Africa, African studies, African religions and politics, agrarian transformations and cultural dimensions of urban and minority populations.

Kleifgen, Jo Anne
Jo Anne Kleifgen is Professor Emerita of Linguistics and Education and a founder of the Center for Multiple Languages and Literacies at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research has focused on multilingual/multimodal practices in school and the workplace. She has authored and edited several books, and her work is widely published in language journals and book chapters. She directed funded research projects on using new media to support Latinx adolescents’ language and literacy development. Recently, she supervised the evaluation of a program bringing classrooms in the US and Middle-East/North Africa together for online collaborative learning. She has been a member of the Executive Committee of the International Linguistic Association since 1991, has served twice as president, and is its current vice president. She serves on several editorial boards and has been a visiting scholar at universities in the U.S. and abroad.

Jo Anne Kleifgen is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA. Her publications include Educating Emergent Bilinguals: Policies, Programs, and Practices for English Language Learners (with Ofelia García; Teachers College Press, 2010) and Languages of Africa and the Diaspora: Educating for Language Awareness (with George C. Bond; Multilingual Matters, 2009).

George Clement Bond is the Director of the Center for African Education and William F. Russell Professor for Anthropology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. His interests include education and elite formation in the United States and Africa, African studies, African religions and politics, agrarian transformations and cultural dimensions of urban and minority populations.