[halshs-00339063] Asikhulume! African Language for All, a Powerful Strategy for Spearheading Transformation and Improvement of the South African Education System

Auteur:

Michel Lafon

Date de publication:

15 Août 2008

Mots-clefs:

langage
Language
Strategy
stratégie
estrategia
éducation
educación
Pédagogie
Administration scolaire
années
Democracy
démocratie
democracia
Equality
Inégalité sociale
Égalité
desigualdad social
Igualdad
Instruction
Teaching
Social status
Statut social
Estatus social
Hope
Espérance
Hope (bateau à vapeur)
Esperanza
cambio
Change
Changement (philosophie)
Change (périodique)
Cambio (Filosofía)
Will
Volonté
Testaments
testament
Parents
Learning
Knowledge and learning
Apprentissage
Savoir et érudition
enseñanza
enseignement
Sound
Son (physique)
Acústica
Sonido
rate
Speakers
Orators
Orateurs
Lecturers
African languages
Langues africaines
Lenguas africanas
escuela
paso
Escritura
Writing
écriture
Examination
Weights and measures
Poids et mesures
Pesos y medidas
voie
escena
Lead
Plomb
Plomo
Social integration
transición
Fortification
fortifications
Fortificaciones
point
Afrique du Sud
South Africa
Humanities
Lettres classiques (enseignement supérieur)
Humanidades
Son
sciences humaines
école
school
vía

Publié ici :

14 Mai 2015

Mis à jour le :

02 Septembre 2017

Domaines:

Sciences de l'éducation
Linguistique

Langue de publication:

Anglais

Almost twenty years after Bantu Education was repelled and fifteen years into democracy, the South African education system remains bedevilled by huge social inequalities. Language is part of that realm of inequality to the extent that the medium of instruction has become the hallmark of a school's social status. If this situation is allowed to continue, there is little hope that any change in this domain will be willingly accepted by the parents of those for whom such a change would be most beneficial, i.e. African learners whose mother-tongue is at odds with the ‘language of learning and teaching', pedagogically sound though it may be. Still, the failure rate among those remains unacceptably high. To overcome this seemingly untractable situation, I argue that mother-tongue education should be made available to all the speakers of any one of the 11 official South African languages, whatever the type of school they attend, and that passing an African indigenous language should become compulsory for all learners writing the senior certificate examination. Such measures could go a long way to trigger transformation in the education scene, and might even lead to a degree of racial and social integration, bringing about the long due transformation of the country.

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