Competing Purposes: Mother Tongue Education Benefits Versus Economic Interests in Rural Zimbabwe

The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the perceptions of educators on the barriers to the implementation of the Zimbabwean language-in-education policy, which recommends use of Indigenous languages up to the end of the primary school level. Postcolonial theory informed this case study...

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Main Authors: Gamuchirai Tsitsi Ndamba, Josiah C. Sithole, Micheal M. van Wyk
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Western Ontario 2017-01-01
Series:International Indigenous Policy Journal
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Online Access:http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/iipj/vol8/iss1/1/