Learning in Morocco (eBook)

Language Politics and the Abandoned Educational Dream

Charis Boutieri (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
292 Seiten
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-02050-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Learning in Morocco offers a rare look inside public education in the Middle East. While policymakers see a crisis in education based on demographics and financing, Moroccan high school students point to the effects of a highly politicized Arabization policy that has never been implemented coherently. In recent years, national policies to promote the use of Arabic have come into conflict with the demands of a neoliberal job market in which competence in French is still a prerequisite for advancement. Based on long-term research inside and outside classrooms, Charis Boutieri describes how students and teachers work within, or try to circumvent, the system, whose contradictory demands ultimately lead to disengagement and, on occasion, to students taking to the streets in protest.

Autor

Charis Boutieri is Senior Lecturer in the Social Anthropology of the Middle East at King's College London.

Inhalt

Writing about Language: Terminology and Transliteration

1. Schools in Crisis

Part I
2. Study Antigone to become a Scientist!
3. Paradox and Passion in the Tower of Babel

Part II
4. Inheritance, Heritage, and the Disinherited
5. Once Upon a Time, There Was a Happy Old Berber Couple

Part III
6. Desires in Languages
7. Out of Class, Into the Street

Notes
References
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.4.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
• Reihe/Serie: Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
• Reihe/Serie: Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
• Zusatzinfo: 10 b&w illus.
• Verlagsort: Bloomington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Gewicht: 35 g
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Schulbuch / Allgemeinbildende Schulen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: arabic • Berber • Education • French • High School • Language Policy • Middle East • Morocco • Morocco, Middle East, North Africa, education, secondary, high school, schools, youth, social issues, language policy, French, Arabic, Berber • North Africa • schools • Secondary • social issues • Youth
• ISBN-10: 0-253-02050-6 / 0253020506
• ISBN-13: 978-0-253-02050-5 / 9780253020505