Global issues in language, education and development : perspectives from postcolonial countries / Naz Rassool ; with case studies by Maggie Canvin, Kathleen Heugh, and Naz Rassool ; with Sabiha Mansoor
Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part 1 Language Diversity in Development Discourse; Chapter 1 Language and the Colonial State; Chapter 2 Postcolonial Development, Language and Nationhood; Chapter 3 The Global Cultural Economy: Issues of Language, Culture and Politics; Chapter 4 Language in the Global Cultural Economy: Implications for Postcolonial Societies; Part 2 Case Studies; Chapter 5 Language and Education Issues in Policy and Practice in Mali, West Africa; Chapter 6 Language and Literacy Issues in South Africa
Summary
Examines the role that language-in-education policy, historically, has played in shaping possibilities for development, within countries in the Sub-Saharan and South Asian regions. This book takes account also of the complex ways in which language, education and development are linked to the changing global labour market
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-286) and index
