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Publication details [#43148]

Wedin, Åsa. 2005. Language Ideologies and Schooled Education in Rural Tanzania: The Case of Karagwe. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 8 (6) : 568–587.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

education | ideology | language policy | language use

Language as a subject

Swahili

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper discusses how the ‘Swahili only’ policy in primary school education in the rural Karagwe district of Tanzania favours only a small minority of the children, living in a Swahili context, whilst the other pupils educational possibilities' are put to a disadvantage.