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  • 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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MPUNTUO: A KEYWORD APPROACH: EXPLORING INDIGENOUS DISCOURSES ON DEVELOPMENT IN AKROFUOM, GHANA

Uttenthal, Benita Abenaa Nyarko January 2015 (has links)
In Mpuntuo: A Keyword Approach, Malmö University Communication for Development Master’s Degree candidate, Benita Uttenthal presents research exploring indigenous knowledge of the term development using an extended case study method of the critical case of the Ghanaian Ashanti community of Akrofuom, from which her family originates. Inspired by Raymond Williams’ classic work, Keywords, which was uniquely applied in Andrew Kipnis’ Suzhi: A Keyword Approach, Uttenthal embarks on a keyword study of the Ashanti term Mpuntuo, which is commonly translated in English as Development. The primary purpose of this investigation is to determine a working definition of development from the indigenous perspective of the citizens of Akrofuom. The research is intended to ignite discourse on the stagnation and seeming regression of development processes in the Akrofuom society. The guiding questions for this research are:●What does Mpuntuo mean both denotatively and connotatively?●With what do the people of Akrofuom associate the concept of Mpuntuo?●Does Mpuntuo transport meanings that are implicit and that you have to be a native speaker to understand?● How is the word used in everyday speech and other contexts?●What wider conclusions about 'development' can be drawn from a social, cultural and political analysis of the Mpuntuo concept?This qualitative study, which employs semi-structured interviews, group discussions and discourse analysis, allows for in-depth and reflexive engagement with the research environment.Ultimately, the research revealed that lack of participation in change processes in the Akrofuom case are having an adverse and depressing impact on the society leading to regression or under development.
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Institutionnalisation de formations francophones en contexte non francophone : politiques curriculaires et statut du français : l'université Galatasaray en Turquie (1992-2012) : une étude de cas élargie à d'autres formations en Europe orientale / Institutionalization of training programs in French in a non French-speaking context : curricular policies and status of the French language : Galatasaray University, Turkey (1992-2012) : a case study, extended to other training programs in Eastern Europe

Troncy, Christel 13 December 2016 (has links)
Comment s'’institutionnalise dans la durée le statut du français comme langue d’'enseignement dans des formations universitaires en contexte non francophone ? L’'hypothèse principale est celle d’'une faible institutionnalisation du statut curriculaire du français en contexte non francophone, due notamment aux acteurs producteurs de la politique curriculaire universitaire, de moins en moins engagés dans un curriculum en français.L’'étude de l’'évolution de la politique curriculaire de l’'université Galatasaray - université créée en 1992 sur la base d’'un accord franco-turc - est envisagée selon une démarche qualitative et inductive, au moyen d’'une étude de cas élargie à d’'autres formations francophones, de moindre ampleur, mais créées à la même période au tournant des années 1980-1990 en Turquie et dans d’'autres pays d’Europe orientale. L’'étude s’'appuie sur un vaste corpus de données d’'archives et de données d’'entretiens. Les différents éléments recueillis sur plusieurs formations, permettent de mettre à jour des processus d’'institutionnalisation initiaux du statut du français communs à ces formations et à l’'université Galatasaray. Toutes sont représentatives d’'une période particulière, de courte durée, propice à un mouvement de création de formations universitaires francophones dans ces contextes globalement non francophones d’'Europe orientale.Dans la majorité des cas, à des degrés divers, vingt ans après, le statut du français apparaît d’autant plus instable que les réseaux d’'acteurs producteurs de la politique curriculaire universitaire sont faibles et que le statut du français est de moins en moins consensuel. / How does the status of the French language as the teaching language for the courses become institutionalized in academic training programs, within a non French-speaking context? The main assumption is that of a weak institutionalization of the curricular status of the French language in a non French-speaking context, due in particular to the players, who generate the academic curricular policy while being less and less committed to a curriculum in French.The study of the curricular policy evolution at Galatasaray University — a university created in 1992 on the basis of a franco-turkish agreement is —considered along the lines of a qualitative and inductive approach, by means of a case study extended to other training programs in French, of a lesser scope but created during the same era, at the turn of the 1980s-1990s in Turkey and in other Eastern Europe countries. The study relies on a vast corpus of archival data and interview-gathered data. The elements concerning the selected training programs enable us to bring to light some initial institutionalization processes of the status of the French language, that are common to these training programs and to Galatasaray University. All are representative of a particular era, of short lasting, propitious for a movement of academic training programs creation, in French, within these globally non French-speaking contexts in Eastern Europe. In the majority of cases, at various degrees, twenty years later, the status of the French language appears all the more unstable that the networks of players who generate the curricular academic policy are weak, and that the status of the French language is less and less consensual.

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