书目名称 | Local Languages as a Human Right in Education |
副标题 | Comparative Cases fr |
编辑 | Zehlia Babaci-Wilhite |
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概述 | This book puts forward the argument that quality learning must be related to educational rights and that quality learning in African countries will not be achieved without curricula that are based on |
丛书名称 | Comparative and International Education: A Diversity of Voices |
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描述 | There seems to be general agreement that children learn better when they understand what the teacher is saying. In Africa this is not the case. Instruction is given in a foreign language, a language neither pupils nor the teachers understand well. This is the greatest educational problem there is in Africa. This is the problem this book discusses and it is therefore an important book. The recent focus on quality education becomes meaningless when teaching is given in a language pupils do not understand. Babaci-Wilhite concludes that any local curriculum that ignores local languages and contexts risks a loss of learning quality and represent a violation of children’s rights in education. The book is highly recommended.Birgit Brock-Utne, Professor of Education and Development, University of Oslo, NorwayZehlia Babaci-Wilhite’s illuminating African case studies display a mastery of the literature on policies related to not only language policies integrally related to human rights in education, but to the relationship between education and national development.The book provides a paradigm shift from focusing on the issue of schooling access to the very meaning education has for personal |
出版日期 | Book 2015 |
关键词 | Africa; Human rights in education; Language of instruction |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-947-0 |
isbn_ebook | 978-94-6209-947-0Series ISSN 2214-9880 Series E-ISSN 2214-9899 |
issn_series | 2214-9880 |
copyright | SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2015 |