Rethinking Bilingual Education in Postcolonial Contexts

Feliciano Chimbutane is Assistant Professor in Linguistics at Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique. His research interests concern languages in education, with special reference to bilingual education. His focus is on policy, classroom practice, and the relationship between classroom discourse, day-to-day talk and the wider social and political order.

• Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Language and EducationChapter 3: Mozambique: Historical, Sociolinguistic and Educational ContextChapter 4: The Research Sites: Communities, Schools and ClassroomsChapter 5: Interaction and Pedagogy in Bilingual ClassroomsChapter 6: Socio-Cultural Impact of Bilingual EducationChapter 7: Bilingual Education and Socio-economic MobilityChapter 8: Conclusion

This volume presents a landmark study of bilingual education policy and local practice in a new context. It offers a fresh and thought-provoking African perspective on the value and purpose of bilingual education, foregrounding its transformative potential. Chimbutane’s arguments are grounded in detailed, multilayered research of an innovative sociolinguistic and ethnographic nature. The volume represents a significant new intellectual resource for all of us who are concerned with education in multilingual settings in the global south.