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Language and Institutional Identity in the Post-Apartheid South African Higher Education

Perspectives on Policy and Practice

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Editors:
  1. Leketi Makalela

    1. The Hub for Multilingual Education and Literacies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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  • Examines the roles played by higher education, language policies and ethnolinguistic identities in South Africa
  • Covers the breadth of the tragic historical racial classifications of universities in South Africa
  • Offers insights on how language and identity formation can serve to (re)imagine higher education in South Africa

Part of the book series: Language Policy (LAPO, volume 27)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction: Language, Identity and African Universities

    • Leketi Makalela
    Pages 1-10

  3. Institutional Language Policy and Identity Construction at a Former Afrikaans Medium University

    • Dumisile N. Mkhize
    Pages 11-31

  4. Institutional Identity and Multilingualism at University of Limpopo

    • Abram Mashatole, Metji Makgoba
    Pages 33-51

  5. From ‘Black’ to ‘Kaleidoscope’: Institutional Curriculum and Linguistic Reforms at a Historically Black University

    • Hlavsio Motlhaka
    Pages 53-72

  6. The Carry-over Effect of Monolingual Teacher Education Programmes: Towards a Decolonized University

    • Clarah Dhokotera, Leketi Makalela
    Pages 73-86

  7. ISiZULU as the Medium of Instruction at University: Shifting Institutional Identities

    • Nomalungelo Ngubane
    Pages 87-100

  8. “You Dare Not Bring the What Do you Calls…”: Marginalization of Indigenous Languages in Higher Education

    • Mpho Rakwena Monareng
    Pages 101-123

  9. From Fixity to Fluidity: A Critique of Higher Education Language Policy

    • Simbayi Yafele, Leketi Makalela
    Pages 125-148

  10. To Be and to Know: Towards a Decolonized Multilingual University

    • Leketi Makalela
    Pages 149-161
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About this book

This book examines the intersections between education, identity formation, and language in post-apartheid South Africa with specific attention to higher education. It does so against the backdrop of the core argument that the sector plays a critical role in shaping, (re)producing and perpetuating sectoral, class, sub-national and national identities, which in turn, in the peculiar South African setting, are almost invariably analogous with the historical fault lines determined and dictated by language as a marker of ethnic and racial identity. The chapters in the book grapple with the nuances related to these intersections in the understanding that higher education language policies – overt and/or covert – largely structure institutional cultures, or what has been described as curriculum in higher education institutions. Together, the chapters examine the roles played by higher education, by language policies, and by the intersections of these policies and ethnolinguistic identities in either constructing and perpetuating, or deconstructing ethnolinguistic identities upon which the sector was founded. The introductory chapter lays out the background to the entire book with an emphasis on the policy and practice perspectives on the intersections. The middle chapters describe the so-called “White Universities”, “Black Universities” and “Middle-Man Minorities Universities”. The final chapter maps out future directions of the discourses on language and identity formation in South Africa’s higher education.

Editors and Affiliations

  • The Hub for Multilingual Education and Literacies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Leketi Makalela

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Language and Institutional Identity in the Post-Apartheid South African Higher Education

  • Book Subtitle: Perspectives on Policy and Practice

  • Editors: Leketi Makalela

  • Series Title: Language Policy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85961-9

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-85960-2Published: 22 March 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-85963-3Published: 23 March 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-85961-9Published: 21 March 2022

  • Series ISSN: 1571-5361

  • Series E-ISSN: 2452-1027

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 161

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Educational Policy and Politics, Language Policy and Planning, Higher Education

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