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An Analysis of South Africa's Education Policy Documents
The language of education policy documents indicates the nature of the society South African policymakers envisioned in a country where people from diverse background share the same geographical space. The language indicates how they perceived both themselves and the various groups. This study shows that despite political change, the style and register of the language used and the concerns underlying educational policies in South Africa are continuous and congruous.
Shifting Understandings of Skills in South Africa
The South African preoccupation with worker skills and skills acquisition is addressed and analyzed in this compilation of essays on the multiple and shifting meanings of the word skill within the country.
Language Standardization and Language Change
Language Standardization and Language Change describes the formation of an early standard norm at the Cape around 1900. The processes of variant reduction and sociolinguistic focusing which accompanied the early standardization history of Afrikaans (or 'Cape Dutch' as it was then called) are analysed within the broad methodological framework of corpus linguistics and variation analysis. Multivariate statistical techniques (cluster analysis, multidimensional scaling and PCA) are used to model the emergence of linguistic uniformity in the Cape Dutch speech community. The book also examines language contact and creolization in the early settlement, the role of Afrikaner nationalism in shaping language attitudes and linguistic practices, and the influence of English. As a case study in historical sociolinguistics the book calls into question the traditional view of the emergence of an Afrikaans standard norm, and advocates a strongly sociolinguistic, speaker-orientated approach to language history in general, and standardization studies in particular.
Hampton Institute
Compiled by Mentor A. Howe and Roscoe E. Lewis.
A Better Future
This book explores the exclusion of underprivileged groups from higher education - a critical frontier for diversity and equality endeavors.
