Titelangaben
Turner, Irina:
Decolonisation through Digitalisation? African Languages at South African Universities.
In: Curriculum Perspectives.
Bd. 43
(2023)
Heft Suppl. 1
.
- S. 73-82.
ISSN 2367-1793
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41297-023-00196-w
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VolkswagenStiftung |
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Abstract
Many South African universities aim to implement one or more African languages into formal and digital structures, in a
process known as localisation. Often, however, this objective is not met due to manifold obstacles, not least of which is a conceptual contradiction of bounded languages and translingual practices. Digitalisation promises to diversify teaching and learning experiences as well as knowledge production at universities. At the same time, it threatens to reproduce analogue power structures. How do institutions negotiate these potentials and pitfalls? This paper explores the digitalisation of isiXhosa at three South African universities in the Eastern Cape province: Nelson Mandela University, Rhodes University, and the University of Fort Hare. Qualitative methods such as discourse analysis and immersed observation were applied to describe state-of-the-art developments in the digital implementation of isiXhosa in the realms of outward representation and communication, learning spaces, and knowledge repositories.
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Publikationsform: | Artikel in einer Zeitschrift |
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Begutachteter Beitrag: | Ja |
Keywords: | isiXhosa; Translingualism; Digitalisation; Intellectualisation |
Institutionen der Universität: | Fakultäten > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät > Lehrstuhl Afrikanistik I Fakultäten Fakultäten > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät |
Titel an der UBT entstanden: | Ja |
Themengebiete aus DDC: | 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 370 Bildung und Erziehung 400 Sprache > 400 Sprachwissenschaft 400 Sprache > 410 Linguistik |
Eingestellt am: | 17 Mai 2023 08:58 |
Letzte Änderung: | 10 Nov 2023 06:29 |
URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/76460 |