Language and Learning in a Post-Colonial Context: A Critical Ethnographic Study in Schools in Haiti

ISBN-13: 9781138499089 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 324 str.

Marky Jean-Pierre

Opis

This book explores the social, political, and historical forces that mediate language ideology and practices in post-colonial education and how such ideology and practices influence students’ academic achievement, using Haiti as its focus.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  Part 1: Haiti: Colonial Hierarchies and Language Ideological Legacies in the Building of a Nation  2. Ayiti, Hispaniola, Saint-Doming and then Haiti: A Brief Account of the Colonial History of Haiti  3. From Ideologies about 'Corrupted Language' to Linguistic Research: Unpacking the Past and Present Representations of Creoles and Reconceptualizing Haitian  4. The Trajectory of Language and Education Policies in Haiti, from the Era of Columbus to the Present  Part 2: Researching and Theorizing Language in Education in a Post-Colonial Context  5. Language-in-Education in Haiti: Orienting Theories  6. Language-in-Education in Haitian Classrooms: Research Methodology  Part 3: Doing Lessons in French and in Haitian, in Two Schools: Texts, Talk and Ways of Knowing  7. Teacher-Dominated Talk in a Third Grade History Lesson at KayPro School  8. "You Don't Know the Lesson": Teacher Talk in a Fourth Grade Geography Lesson at Mango Fil School  9. Discussing the Environment in Haitian in a Third Grade Natural Sciences Lesson at KayPro School: Students' Voices and Positive Teacher Evaluation  10. Considering the Significance of Local Plants in Haitian: A Sixth Grade Lesson at Mango Fil School  11. Dialogic Interactions in Haitian and in French lessons at KayPro School  12. Reciting and Writing from the Textbook: A French-Medium Math Lesson in a Third Grade Classroom at KayPro School  13. Orienting to the Textbook as the Location of Knowledge: A Haitian Language Arts Lesson at Mango Fil School  Part 4: Moving Beyond the Workings of Coloniality, Redefining Language and Education Futures  14. Educating or Merely Schooling Haitian Students?  15. Closing Reflections: Redefining Language and Education Futures in Haiti

O autorze

Marky Jean-Pierre is Visiting Assistant Professor of French at Tulane University, USA.