African Literacy & Languages Globalization & Internationalization in Education Kasey Rios Asberry Spring 2014
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African Literacy & Languages
Globalization & Internationalization in EducationKasey Rios Asberry Spring 2014
Your perspectives
Visualizing literacy
Competing trajectories
Whose project?
South Africa: literacy and languages
Back to the future
African Literacy & LanguagesGlobalization & Internationalization in EducationSpring 2014
Your perspectives
• Should education systems invest in teaching people in more than one language? All 14
• Would / do you educate your children in more than one language? All 14
Our objective > Visualizing literacy
Competing Trajectories
• Global vs local
• Commodification vs heritage
Literacy: whose project?
• Literacy objectives: who defines
• Literacy implementations: who succeeds?
• Literacy outcomes: who benefits?
Business Languages of Africa
Literacy: whose project?
Washington Consensus
Capability deprivation
Control of educational purpose
Language and liberation
Frantz Fanon
“To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture”
Paulo Freire
“Without a sense of identity
there can be no
struggle”
“Language is never neutral”
“to alienate humans from their own decision-making is to turn them into objects”
Neville Alexander
“Only those who do not consider political questions deeply can ignore language questions in South Africa”
Rock art & alphabets
Families
Endangered languages
• between 6000 - 7000 languages currently spoken
• 50-90% of those will have become extinct by the year 2100
• The top 20 languages spoken by more than 50 million speakers each, are spoken by 50% of the world's population, many of the other languages are spoken by small communities, most of them with fewer than 10,000 speakers.
South African Linguistic Context
Languages of South Africa
South African Literacy Context
Literacy: whose project?
• Neville Alexander, rights in education
• Reclamation goals
• Languages and revolution
Concept map: Visualizing literacy
Back to the future
ReferencesAllais,S. (2003) The National Qualifications Framework in South Africa: a democratic project
trapped in a neo-liberal paradigm? Journal of Education and Work. Vol 16:3
Alexander, N.(1989) Language Policy & National Unity in South Africa/Azania. Buchu Books
Babaci-Wilhite,Z., A. Macleans, M. Geo-JaJa, S. Lou (2012) Education and Language: A human right for sustainable development in Africa. Int Rev Educ (2012) 58:619–647 DOI 10.1007/s11159-012-9311-7
Fanon, F.(1959) A Dying Colonialism. Grove Press: New York
Freire, P. (1970) Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Continuum: New York
The Economist (2010) No One Gets Prizes. http://Economist.com./world/middle-east/
Omolewa, M. (2008) Adult Literacy in Africa: The Push and Pull Factors. International Review of Education (2008) 54:697–711
Mafundikwa, S.2004. Afrikan Alphabets: The Story of Writing in Afrika. Mark Batty LLC: New York
Figures• Map: Business Languages, AfroGraphique• Map: Rock Art & Alphabets in Africa, Mafundikwa• Map: Language Families in Africa• Map: Language Distribution in South Africa, AACLAN• Fanon, Frantz, Wikimedia• Alexander, Neville, Wikimedia• Paulo Freire, The Freire Project• African syllabary: Adinka, Mafundikwa• Non-verbal language: Bantu ideograms, Mafundikwa
These slides were prepared for ISED 740: Globalization &
Internationalization in Education, a graduate seminar in Education at San Francisco State University,
David Hemphill, Professor.
African Literacy & LanguagesGlobalization & Internationalization in EducationSpring 2014
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