A Panoramic View of Bilingual Education in Sub‐Saharan Africa
A Panoramic View of Bilingual Education in Sub‐Saharan Africa
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撒哈拉以南非洲双语教育全景
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10.1002/9781118533406.ch36
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2015
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L. Makalela
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L. Makalela
Sub‐Saharan African countries have inherited and maintained monoglossic language‐ in‐education policies from colonial ideologies since the sixteenth century. This chapter provides a historical account of bilingual education policies and practices from the precolonial era to the present‐day in sub‐Saharan Africa. It analyzes tensions between monolithic policies and fluid classroom language practices that are curtailed by such policy impositions. Cultural, linguistic, and educational repercussions for African multilingualism are explained in the light of these tensions. In this connection, the chapter presents an argument for true heteroglossic policies and practices that affirm multiple identities and holistic development of African‐multilingual children. Finally, the chapter offers an alternative bi/multilingual education lens for the twenty‐first century, understood and expanded within a plural vision of a translanguaging framework and the African locus of “I am because you are.”.