Rethinking Bilingual Education in Postcolonial Contexts

Taking an ethnographic study of the purpose and value of bilingual education in Mozambique as a starting point, this book calls for critical adaptations when theories of bilingual education, based on practices in the North, are applied to the countries of the global South.

About the author

Feliciano Chimbutane is Assistant Professor in Linguistics at Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique. His research interests concern languages in education, with special reference to bilingual education. His focus is on policy, classroom practice, and the relationship between classroom discourse, day-to-day talk and the wider social and political order.

Summary

Taking an ethnographic study of the purpose and value of bilingual education in Mozambique as a starting point, this book calls for critical adaptations when theories of bilingual education, based on practices in the North, are applied to the countries of the global South.

Product details

• Authors: Feliciano Chimbutane
• Publisher: Channel View Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.05.2011
• EAN: 9781847693648
• ISBN: 978-1-84769-364-8
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 216 mm x 155 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 378 g
• Series: Bilingual Education & Bilingualism; Bilingual Education and Biling; Bilingual Education & Bilingua; Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries