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Publication details [#33080]

Stroud, Christopher. 2003. Postmodernist Perspectives on Local Languages: African Mother-tongue Education in Times of Globalisation. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 6 (1) : 17–36.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

education | global constraint | globalization | language policy | vernacular

Language as a subject

English | Languages, African

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

ISBN

1367-0050

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper argues that African mother-tongue education tends more to reinforce the negative effects of globalization than facilitate the promotion of local values and analyses some of the ways in which language-in-education policies have attempted to come to grips with this problem.