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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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The Arabicisation of higher education : the case of Khartoum University

Taha, Taha Abdel-Majeed January 1989 (has links)
No description available.
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Unspoken Dialogues Between Educational and Family Language Policies: Children as Language Policy Agents

Kaveh, Yalda M. January 2018 (has links)
Thesis advisor: María Estela Brisk / Linguistic assimilation has been historically regarded as a cornerstone for nationalistic sentiments in the United States. Schools have been utilized as influential filtering sites where non-English languages are marginalized, and then assimilated into the dominant American English ways of languaging (Crawford, 1992; Flores, 2014; Heath, 1976; Nieto, 1999; Wiley & García, 2016). Drawing on theories of language policy (Spolsky, 2004) and governmentality (Foucault, 1991), this dissertation examined the links between family language policies and educational language policies at two public elementary schools in the state of Massachusetts during its final year of enforcing an English-only educational policy (Chapter 71A of Massachusetts General Laws). The participants were four fourth grade children, four parents, and eight school staff at two public elementary schools in two different districts (one urban and one suburban). The families spoke Cape Verdean Creole, Mandarin, Portuguese, and Spanish as their heritage languages. The study was designed as a qualitative multiple case study to conduct a multi-sited analysis of language policy. The data for the case studies were collected through surveys of parents, language logs filled by the children, interviews with the children, the parents, and the school staff, as well as weeklong school observations of each child. The units of analysis were family and school as two main language policy contexts the children regularly navigated. Qualitative thematic analysis was used to analyze the data (Braun & Clarke, 2006). The findings indicated that although the families and the schools seemed to appreciate bilingualism, they were still strongly influenced by the historical monoglossic ideologies of the society that convinced them to eventually conform to English in the name of ensuring success for the children. These ideologies were communicated between schools and families as “unspoken dialogues” through children who navigated language policies in both contexts. The findings highlight implications for teacher preparation, curriculum development, language policy research on schools and families, and educational language policies that impact children of immigrants. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2018. / Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education. / Discipline: Teacher Education, Special Education, Curriculum and Instruction.
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Les universités, actrices des politiques linguistiques éducatives en Colombie / Universities as agents of Educational Language Policies in Colombia / Las universidades, actrices de las políticas lingüísticas educativas en Colombia

Uribe Salamanca, Edga Mireya 04 December 2015 (has links)
L’université est devenue, dans la société mondiale, un bastion de l’innovation scientifique. Cet espace légitime de critique, discussion et mobilités représente un bien public, qu'il appartienne au secteur officiel ou privé, et fonctionne dans le cadre d’un système de l’éducation nationale. Confrontée à la mondialisation, l’université intègre l’enseignement, la recherche et le service à la communauté comme fonctions essentielles de l’enseignement supérieur ; pour ce faire, elle développe des stratégies visant à répondre aux responsabilités linguistiques internationales, nationales et régionales ainsi qu’aux besoins langagiers des étudiants dans la formation de leur répertoire linguistique, quel que soit le statut des langues. Son autonomie lui permet une participation active dans la configuration des politiques publiques en matière des langues et de l’éducation. Ces éléments nous ont conduits à analyser le rôle spécifique des universités comme actrices des politiques linguistiques éducatives en Colombie, en particulier (mais non de manière limitative) l’offre de formation en langues de ces institutions universitaires en direction des étudiants spécialistes et non spécialistes dans ce domaine. L’échantillon est formé par 10% des universités colombiennes distribuées dans les principales villes du pays. Le caractère notamment qualitatif de cette étude a permis, grâce au protocole d’enquête des 180 questionnaires et du guide des 18 entretiens, une systématisation des phénomènes analysés à partir des dispositifs de qualité des neuf institutions d’enseignement supérieur qui composent le corpus. La proposition de certaines orientations générales en matière de politiques linguistiques éducatives dans les universités colombiennes constitue l’aboutissement de notre recherche ; elles s’adressent aux communautés universitaires pour leur éventuelle discussion dans le cadre d’une éducation au plurilinguisme. / In a world society, the university has become a bastion of scientific innovation. This legitimate space within which criticism, discussion, and mobility take place represents a public good, either within the public or the private sector, and operates within national education system. With rapid recent globalization, the university combines teaching, research, and university-community partnerships as essential functions of higher education. To this end, strategies aimed at meeting linguistic responsibilities at international, national, and regional level are developed. The strategies involved put in place measures designed to address language needs of the diverse student population regardless of the linguistic prestige accorded to individual languages. University autonomy means that universities can actively participate in the shaping of public policies on language and education. These factors have taken us to consider the specific role played by universities as agents of educational language policies in Colombia, particularly (but not limited to) the diversity of modern foreign language provision in higher education for specialist and non-specialist students. The sample consists of 10% of Colombian universities located in major cities of the country. The qualitative nature of this study has allowed for systematization of the phenomena analysed. This has been achieved through administering a questionnaire survey as well as structured interviews in nine institutions of higher education. The assembled corpus is informed by 180 questionnaires and 18 interviews carried out following quality parameters. The culmination of our research is a proposal of some general guidelines for educational language policy to be implemented in Colombian universities. The target group of these guidelines is the academic community in Colombia. The proposal might serve as a basis for discussion with a view to the possible development of a policy and approach for multilingual education in Colombia. / La universidad se ha convertido, en la sociedad mundial, en un bastión de la innovación científica. Este espacio legítimo de la crítica, la discusión y la movilidad representa un bien público, sea del sector oficial o privado, y opera dentro de un sistema de educación nacional. Confrontada a la globalización, la universidad integra la enseñanza, la investigación y la extensión como funciones esenciales de la educación superior; para ello, desarrolla estrategias que buscan cumplir con las responsabilidades lingüísticas internacionales, nacionales y regionales y con las necesidades, en este campo, de los estudiantes en la formación de su repertorio de lenguas, independientemente del estatus de ellas. Su autonomía le permite la participación activa en la configuración de las políticas públicas sobre el lenguaje y la educación. Estos factores nos han llevado a analizar el papel específico de las universidades como actrices de las políticas lingüísticas educativas en Colombia, en particular (pero no limitados a) la oferta de enseñanza de idiomas de estas instituciones universitarias a estudiantes especialistas y no especialistas en esta área. La muestra está formada por el 10% de las universidades colombianas distribuidas en las principales ciudades. La naturaleza de este estudio cualitativo ha permitido una sistematización de los fenómenos analizados, por medio del protocolo de la encuesta realizado a través de 180 cuestionarios y la guía de las 18 entrevistas, a partir de parámetros de calidad tenidos en cuenta en las nueve instituciones de educación superior que conforman el corpus. La culminación de nuestra investigación es la propuesta de algunas pautas generales sobre las políticas lingüísticas educativas en universidades colombianas; dichas pautas están dirigidas a las comunidades académicas para su posible discusión en el marco de una educación para el plurilingüismo.
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La construction identitaire en milieu plurilingue et pluriculturel : étude de la politique linguistique éducative des écoles européennes dans le contexte luxembourgeois / Pas de titre traduit

Shahabi, Shafagh 29 November 2013 (has links)
Cette recherche s’est inscrite dans le champ des études sur les perceptions liées aux langues et aux cultures, ainsi que leur influence sur le positionnement identitaire des acteurs sociaux dans un contexte plurilingue et pluriculturel. Nous nous sommes intéressés plus particulièrement au cas précis des Écoles européennes et leurs élèves, les euroélèves. Nous avons motivé ce choix par le contexte unique offert pour étudier le rapport entre l’apprentissage des langues selon une approche interculturelle et le positionnement identitaire des élèves. Il s’agissait, en somme, de mieux comprendre et expliquer la notion d’« identité européenne » et de donner un sens plus précis à la notion « des Européens » (au sens des fondateurs de l’Europe comme Jean Monnet), ceci en s’appuyant sur la politique linguistique éducative des Écoles européennes et le contexte précis de l’École européenne de Luxembourg.Dans ce cadre, nous nous sommes appliquées à étudier les expériences linguistiques, culturelles et sociales des euroélèves, ainsi que les représentations culturelles engendrées, relevant aussi bien de leur propre culture que celles des autres cultures européennes. Nous avons ensuite tenté de comprendre dans quelle mesure les interactions entre ces éléments influencent le positionnement identitaire des euroélèves et leur rapport avec les Autres. Pour ce faire, sur le plan méthodologique, nous avons mené une étude empirique dont la dimension ethnosociologique a constitué l’aspect le plus important. Nous avons motivé ce choix par le caractère culturellement situé des représentations culturelles et de la manière dont les individus (ici euroélèves) interprètent leurs propres expériences linguistiques et culturelles. Aussi, nous avons procédé par une enquête ethnosociologique basée sur une combinaison de plusieurs méthodes de collecte de données (observation, entrevue et analyse documentaire). Cette approche nous a permis de non seulement identifier les représentations culturelles (au travers d’une analyse fine des paroles des acteurs sociaux interviewés), mais également de les situer dans leur contexte socioculturel. Il résulte de ces travaux de nouvelles représentations socioculturelles et une typologie inédite du positionnement identitaire chez les euroélèves, dont l’origine se trouve dans le nombre assez important de facteurs langagiers et culturels qui entrent en jeu dans la façon dont ils se perçoivent et se définissant sur le plan identitaire et dont nous avons retenu et exposé plus amplement trois formes identitaires représentatives et plus particulièrement l’« identité européenne ». Tout en confirmant le caractère dynamique du processus de construction identitaire chez les euroélèves, notre recherche met de plus en évidence sa nature progressiste, où le terme « progrès » symbolise un certain dépassement de barrières intellectuelles de la perception des Autres, lequel semble une condition nécessaire pour assurer la transition vers une « identité européenne ». Nos travaux ouvrent également de nouvelles pistes de recherche sur la question épineuse de positionnement identitaire dans un milieu plurilingue et pluriculturel dont la piste sociopsychologique, basée sur les travaux de Lev Vygotski, nous semble sur le plan théorique particulièrement intéressante. / This research is part of the wider study of how languages and cultures are perceived, and how they influence the identity positioning of social actors in a multilingual and multicultural context. More specifically, this study focuses on the European Schools and their students, the Eurostudents. This choice was motivated by the unique context these schools offer for studying the relationship between language acquisition premised on an intercultural approach on the one hand, and the identity positioning of students on the other. In sum, the point was to better understand and explain the notion of a “European identity” and to give more precise meaning to the notion of “Europeans” as conceived by the founders of the European Union such as Jean Monnet, all in the context of the European School in Luxembourg and the educational language policy it practises. I set out to study the linguistic, cultural, and social experiences of the Eurostudents and the cultural representations these engendered, both of their own culture and of other European cultures. I then tried to understand how the interactions among these elements affect the identity positioning of the Eurostudents and their relationship with Others. My methodology consisted of an empirical study whose ethno-sociological dimension was the most important one. This choice was motivated by the fact that cultural representation and the manner in which individuals, in this case the Eurostudents, interpret their linguistic and cultural experiences are culturally situated. I conducted an ethno-sociological investigation consisting of a combination of observation, interviewing, and analysis of documents. This allowed me to not only identify the cultural representations (through a detailed analysis of what the social actors said in the interviews), but also to situate these cultural representations in their sociocultural context. The study revealed new sociocultural representations and a novel typology of identity positionings on the part of Eurostudents the origins of which lie in the rather important number of language and cultural factors that affect the way these students perceive themselves and define their identity. I selected three identity positionings revealed by this new typology for wider discussion, including a “European identity”. My study confirms that the identity construction of the Eurostudents is a dynamic process, and my research also reveals that it is progressive, where the term “progress” symbolizes a certain transcendence of the intellectual barriers through which Others are perceived, which is a necessary condition for effecting a transition towards a “European identity”. My work also opens up new perspectives for further research on the thorny question of how identity is positioned in a multilingual and multicultural milieu, a question for the study of which the socio-psychological approach associated with Lev Vygotski seems to be the theoretically most promising one.
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”Tänk dig att du ska baka en kladdkaka…” : Stöttningspraktiker hos lärare som undervisar i icke-språkcentrerade kurser / “Imagine you are baking a mud cake…” : The Practice of Scaffolding by Teachers Teaching Non-Language Centered Courses

Lundwall, Sarah January 2019 (has links)
The aim of this study is to examine in what way teachers in upper secondary school who teaches non-language centered courses uses scaffolding within the theoretical context of language-based learning to support their students’ learning. The study will also examine if there is a difference depending on what subjects the teacher is licensed to teach in. The main methods used are observations and audio recordings of three different teachers during a total of six lessons. The material also consists of interviews with the observed teachers to give additional information about the teachers’ backgrounds and thoughts about language-based learning in relation to their teaching methods. The study is based on a sociocultural and cognitive approach along with the principles of scaffolding based in genre-based pedagogy and Jim Cummins’ theory on how to achieve language proficiency within a school-based contexed and its specialised domains. The results show that all teachers use scaffolding by creating an extensive context for learning within each domain. This contextual scaffolding helps the students learn the new language domain. The teachers also show variations in how they scaffold depending on the subject and student group with more abstract subjects being provided with more concrete exemplification. The conclusions drawn from this is that teachers use scaffolding to help students build the field of the domain and provide scaffolding according to the different subjects and student groups' current conditions and need for cognitive challenges.

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