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Publication details [#27656]

Klerk, Gerda de. 2002. Mother-tongue education in South Africa: the weight of history. International Journal of the Sociology of Language (154) : 29–46.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

education | historical explanation | language maintenance | language policy | linguistic human rights

Language as a subject

Languages, South African

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN

0165-2516

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This paper discusses how mother-tongue education in South-Africa served various purposes throughout history, ranging from exclusion to empowerment, over (the still contested domains of) human rights, educational strategies and national identity.