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Dilemmas of culture in African schools : youth, nationalism, and the transformation of knowledge.
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ISBN: 0226111318 0226111296 Year: 2005 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago press

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In working to build a sense of nationhood, Ghana has focused on many social engineering projects, the most meaningful and fascinating of which has been the state's effort to create a national culture through its schools. As Cati Coe reveals in 'Dilemmas of Culture in African Schools', this effort has created an unusual paradox: while Ghana encourages its educators to teach about local cultural traditions, those traditions are transformed as they are taught in school classrooms. The state version of culture now taught by educators has become objectified and nationalized--vastly different from local traditions. Coe identifies the state's limitations in teaching cultural knowledge and discusses how Ghanaians negotiate the tensions raised by the competing visions of modernity that nationalism and Christianity have created. She reveals how cultural curricula affect authority relations in local social organizations--between teachers and students, between Christians and national elite, and between children and elders--and raises several questions about educational processes, state-society relations, the production of knowledge, and the making of Ghana's citizenry.


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Writing up qualitative research.
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ISBN: 9781412970112 1412970113 1452234876 1483303454 Year: 2009 Publisher: Los Angeles Sage


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Multiculturalism in the age of the mosaic
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ISBN: 9781608769957 9781612090658 1612090656 160876995X Year: 2010 Publisher: New York.


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Rethinking Bilingual Education in Postcolonial Contexts
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ISBN: 1847693636 1847693644 1847693652 9781847693631 9781847693648 9781847693655 1283147742 9786613147745 Year: 2011 Publisher: Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters,

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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. For example, it challenges the assumption that transitional models necessarily lead to language shift and cultural assimilation. Taking an ethnographically-based narrative on the purpose and value of bilingual education in Mozambique as a starting point, it shows how, in certain contexts, even a transitional model may strengthen the vitality of local languages and associated cultures, instead of weakening them. The analysis is based on the view that communicative practices in the classroom influence and are influenced by institutional, local and societal processes. Within this framework, the book shows how education in low-status languages can play a role in social and cultural transformation, especially where post-colonial contexts are concerned.

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