Moving to school for the first time
produces mixed feelings of emotion and apprehension. Emotion
is born out of the conception of the move as a journey of
discovery and experience. But like any other journey,
unpredictable dangers may lie ahead, turning the journey
into a nightmare. In the case of education which is an
enduring journey, danger on the way may be perceived as an
additional difficulty which can dishearten the traveller
from taking a further mile; mostly when he/she is an
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This research is a pioneering study in comparative education in the context of Cameroon in particular, and Africa in general, which highlights present-day school and classroom instances of language socialisation as instantiating Anglophone and Francophone education traditions in their representation of the British and French educational legacies from the colonial era. Its findings point to practices specific to each study site and to Anglophone and Francophone subsystems of education as they translate local, national and global education perspectives and parallel Anglophone and Francophone...