Are Things Falling Apart Again? A Dialectical Analysis of Language Education Policy in Nigeria
Description:
Today's globalized world presents challenges for formulating language education policies in multilingual countries, and postcolonial Nigeria presents a dramatic illustration because of ongoing colonial influences as well as neocolonial factors. This study focused on dialectical relations over time among languages in Nigeria's National Policy on Education (NPE), published in 1977, 1981, 1998, 2004, 2013, and 2014. The title of the study harks to Chinua Achebe's novel, Things Fall Apart, which d…
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Date:
August 2019
Creator:
Olaniyi, Adepeju Folasade
Partner:
UNT Libraries