Language and Institutional Identity in the Post-Apartheid South African Higher Education: Perspectives on Policy and Practice

Author:   Leketi Makalela
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2022
Volume:   27
ISBN:  

9783030859602


Pages:   161
Publication Date:   22 March 2022
Format:   Hardback
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Language and Institutional Identity in the Post-Apartheid South African Higher Education: Perspectives on Policy and Practice


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This book examines the intersections between education, identity formation, and language in post-apartheid South Africa with specific attention to higher education. It does so against the backdrop of the core argument that the sector plays a critical role in shaping, (re)producing and perpetuating sectoral, class, sub-national and national identities, which in turn, in the peculiar South African setting, are almost invariably analogous with the historical fault lines determined and dictated by language as a marker of ethnic and racial identity. The chapters in the book grapple with the nuances related to these intersections in the understanding that higher education language policies – overt and/or covert – largely structure institutional cultures, or what has been described as curriculum in higher education institutions. Together, the chapters examine the roles played by higher education, by language policies, and by the intersections of these policies and ethnolinguistic identities in either constructing and perpetuating, or deconstructing ethnolinguistic identities upon which the sector was founded. The introductory chapter lays out the background to the entire book with an emphasis on the policy and practice perspectives on the intersections. The middle chapters describe the so-called “White Universities”, “Black Universities” and “Middle-Man Minorities Universities”. The final chapter maps out future directions of the discourses on language and identity formation in South Africa’s higher education.

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Author:   Leketi Makalela
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2022
Volume:   27
Weight:   0.436kg
ISBN:  

9783030859602


ISBN 10:   3030859606
Pages:   161
Publication Date:   22 March 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction: language, identity and African universities (Leketi Makalela) Chapter 2. Institutional language policy and identity construction at a former Afrikaans medium university (Dumisile Mkhize) Chapter 3. Identity and Linguistic Culture at the University of Limpopo (Abram Mashatole & Metji Makgoba) Chapter 4. From ‘Black’ to ‘Kaleidoscope’: Institutional Curriculum and Linguistic reforms at a historically Black University (Hlaviso Mothlaka) Chapter 5. The carry over effects of teacher education programmes on monolingualism: Towards a decolonized university (Clarah Dhokotera & Leketi Makalela) Chapter 6. IsiZulu as the Medium of Instruction in a South African University: Implications for institutional identity shift (Nomalungelo Ngubane) Chapter 7. “You dare not bring the ‘what you calls …”: Marginalization of Indigenous Languages in Higher Education (Mpho Monareng) Chapter 8. From fixity to fluidity: A critique of Higher Education Language Policy (Simba Yafele & Leketi Makalela) Chapter 9. To be and to know: Towards decolonized multilingual university (Leketi Makalela)

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