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This edited book examines the crucial role still played by African
languages in pedagogy and literatures in the 21st century,
generating insights into how they effectively serve cultural needs
across the African continent and beyond. Boldly positioning African
languages as key resources in the 21st century, chapters focus on
themes such as language revolt by marginalized groups at grassroots
level, the experience of American students learning African
languages, female empowerment through the use of African languages
in music, film and literary works, and immigration issues. The
contributions are written by scholars of language, literature,
education and linguistics, and the book will be of interest to
students and scholars in these and related areas.
This book provides a rich and nuanced examination of children
learning to read and write a second language in primary schools in
Kenya, taught by teachers who themselves have often learned English
as a second or third language. The author uses two case studies, of
an urban and a rural school, to explore how different socioeconomic
and cultural contexts can affect the enactment of language policies
and their effect on literacy. This book contributes a unique
perspective to studies in language and literacy education due to
its distinctive exploration of young children learning to read and
write in the English language in Kenya, and it will be of
particular interest to students and scholars of applied
linguistics, language education, bilingualism and language policy.
This edited book examines the crucial role still played by African
languages in pedagogy and literatures in the 21st century,
generating insights into how they effectively serve cultural needs
across the African continent and beyond. Boldly positioning African
languages as key resources in the 21st century, chapters focus on
themes such as language revolt by marginalized groups at grassroots
level, the experience of American students learning African
languages, female empowerment through the use of African languages
in music, film and literary works, and immigration issues. The
contributions are written by scholars of language, literature,
education and linguistics, and the book will be of interest to
students and scholars in these and related areas.
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Gender and Education in Kenya (Hardcover)
Esther Mukewa Lisanza; Contributions by Mokaya Bosire, Damaris Choti, Zulekha R. Khamisi, Leonora Anyango-Kivuva, …
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Gender and Education in Kenya explores the intersections of
curriculum, pedagogy, policy, and gender. The contributors study
depictions of gender in textbooks, the presence and roles of girls
and women within classrooms in Kenya, and female leadership in
education, arguing that, despite recent policies put in place by
the Kenyan government to ensure gender parity in education, there
is still a need to make curriculum more gender responsive. Gender
and Education in Kenya examines the disparity between male and
female representation in education and advocate for more training
for teachers about gender-related educational policies and
implementing gender-responsive objectives in classrooms. The
collection concludes with a study of the intersection of gender and
disability with a chapter that explores the additional challenges
for a blind girl in school and the lack of policies in place to
help disabled students.
Language in Contemporary African Cultures and Societies examines
language in contemporary Africa by positioning language at the
center of interrelationships between individuals, society, and
culture. Because of how language permeates every aspect of human
existence within each society, this book has assembled
contributions by researchers and scholars who focus on different
topics within African languages and cultures. By presenting African
languages as resources and subject and subject of the study, this
book discusses Africa's multilingualism, language policy,
preservation, and their uses in development, security, liberation,
and identity formation in the diaspora. Based on empirical research
and analysis of texts, this book takes a closer look at the
continent and the diaspora by situating African languages,
cultures, and literatures at the center, and shows how African
languages are used in the liberation, transfer of knowledge, and
promotion of literacy among Africans globally. It is a book that
seeks to bridge the gap between the continent and the diaspora. All
contributors are experienced scholars of language, literature,
education and linguistics. The chapters provide a major means for
examining the interplay of language, literature, and education.
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