Publications

Publication details [#51945]

Heugh, K. 2009. Into the cauldron: An interplay of indigenous and globalised knowledge with strong and weak notions of literacy and language education in Ethiopia and South Africa. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa 40 (2) : 166–189.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

Two case studies (situated in Ethiopia and South Africa) show that bilingual and multilingual (literacy) education in Africa is possible and provides more successful learning outcomes than do second-language, monolingually driven (neo- and post-colonial) systems.