Browsing Research articles (Dept of Languages & Social Sciences Education) by Title
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African literature: Matshoba's "call me not a man"
(National Council of Teachers of English, http://www.ncte.org/, 1990-12)Suggests using Mtutuzeli Matshoba's "Call Me Not a Man" as the central text in a unit on oppression to help students understand and make them better able to respond to oppression. Provides key questions for structuring the ... -
Bilingual education: meeting the challenges of diversity in Botswana
(Nordic Association of African Studies, http://www.njas.helsinki.fi/, 2008)This paper reviews the role of language in addressing issues of instruction and diversity towards the achievement of the aims of basic education in Botswana. It also examines the role of the mother tongue in instruction ... -
The bumpy road to mother tongue instruction in Malawi
(Routledge. http://www.informaworld.com, 2008-09)In 1996, the Ministry of Education in Malawi directed that in future Standards 1 to 4 would be taught through mother tongues. It took eight years before the pilot phase of the language policy could begin. The paper critically ... -
The challenges for teachers in the teaching of topics associated with Botswana's "Vision 2016"
(Caddo Gap Press, http://www.caddogap.com, 2009)The world is a diverse ecosystem where humans and the environment must interact and live in harmony. In order to keep any society going, either at the national or global level, the importance of having visions for the ... -
Changing livelihoods, language use and language shift amongst Basarwa of Botswana
(Routledge. http://www.informaworld.com, 2009-08)This study explores the historical relationship between the languages of Basarwa of Botswana and Setswana, in order to understand the dynamics underpinning their appropriation of the Setswana language, as they adjust to ... -
Code-switching in Botswana history classrooms in the decade of education for sustainable development
(Routledge http://www.informaworld.com, 2009-07)Education is an important vehicle for the achievement of overall sustainable development. Moreover, international organisations have encouraged governments around the world to work towards achieving education for all. The ... -
Colonial initiatives and Afreican responses in the esdtablishment of the dairy industry in the Bechuanaland Protectorate, 1930-1966
(Research and Development Unit, University of Botswana http://www.thuto.org, 1999)The dairy industry arose in Bechuanaland primarily as an alternative to beef production in response to South Africa's restrictions on the import of cattle from the Protectorate African dairy producers were at a disadvantage ... -
Competing gender ideologies: a conceptual framework for the analysis of education amongst Batswana of Botswana, c.1840-c.1994
(Research and Development Unit, University of Botswana. http://www.thuto.org, 1997)In both precolonial and Westerm forms of schooling, education was a crucial medium of construction and articulation of ideas concerning the role and behaviour of women. Precolonial education reproduced and maintained sharp ... -
Counteracting the threat of language death: the case of minority languages in Botswana
(Routledge. http://www.informaworld.com, 2006-03)When Botswana gained independence from the British in 1966, a political decision was taken to designate English as an official language and Setswana, one of the indigenous languages, as a national language. This move ... -
Democratizing education for the enhancement of education for sustainable development: a challenge in Botswana
(IJSRE, http://www.ijsre.com, 2010-10)This paper registers that there is a strong relationship between the prevailing global discourse on Education for Sustainable Development and Democracy in Education. As such, in order for any nation to be seen to be having ... -
Denigrating the local, glorifying the foreign: Malawian language policies in the era of African Renaissance
(Taylor & Francis, http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals, 2010-12)Malawi's Vision 2020 document, a national document that serves as a vehicle to project a future for a more developed, secure and democratically mature nation, laments the tendency of Malawians to denigrade local products ... -
Educating for democratic engagement in Botswana's democracy: challenges of promoting democratic education
(African Journals Online, http://www.ajol.info/index.php/jsda/index, 2011)In order for democracy to be sustained in any state, it is fundamentally crucial that the education system should teach citizens about democracy and how to participate in the democratic process. Participation in the ... -
Education for sustainable development in higher education institutions in southern Africa
(IJSRE, http://www.ijsre.com, 2010-12)The implementation of education for sustainable development (ESD) demand for a review of the current epistemological and pedagogical practices in the context of the objectives of the United Nations Decade of Education for ... -
Education reform in Botswana: reflections on policy contradictions and paradoxes
(Routledge http://www.informaworld.com, 2009-02)Literature on globalisation claims that changed global patterns of production and industrial organisation have intensified international economic competition, prompting nations globally to restructure their education systems ... -
Exploring citizenship education: cultural study curriculum in Botswana
(David Publishing, http://www.davidpublishing.com/, 2012-03)The research project presented here examined the concept of citizenship education in the context of cultural studies in Botswana’s lower primary level which is from standard one to four. Cultural studies as a discipline ... -
Geography in the Botswana Secondary curriculum: A study in curriculum renewal and contraction
(Routledge. http://www.informaworld.com, 2002-06)Curriculum reviews during the past two decades in Botswana have had mixed fortunes for geography in secondary schools. While the subject has modernised over the years it has at the same time shrunk in terms of its spread ... -
Geography students as constructors of classroom knowledge and practice: a case study from Botswana
(Routledge. http://www.informaworld.com, 2004-01)This study reports on the strategies (overt and subtle) employed by students in one senior secondary school in Botswana to keep their teachers in an information-giving position. Contrary to the prevailing view that the ... -
Global Influences and local responses: The restructuring of the University of Botswana, 1990-2000
(Springer. http://www.springerlink.com, 2007-04)The University of Botswana has not escaped the reform fever currently gripping higher education institutions the world-over. In the late 1980s the University initiated an administrative/management restructuring exercise ... -
Globalization and the nation-state: sovereignty and state welfare in jeopardy
(David Publishing Company, http://www.davidpublishing.com, 2011-07)This paper addresses the fact that although globalization cannot be resisted by the nation-state, it is often confronted by mixed reactions from both the GN (Global North) and the GS(Global South). The essay charges that ... -
Globalization, linguistic diversity, and information dissemination in Malawi
(Brill Academic Publishers. http://www.brill.nl/m%5Fcatalogue.asp?sub=3, 2008)In a linguistically heterogeneous country, one of the critical challenges is to make information accessible to all people. Various communication media can be used: television, radio, telephone, the Internet and others. ...