Language Is Also a Place of Struggle

Autor/in	Nhalevilo, Emilia A.
Titel	Language Is Also a Place of Struggle
Quelle	In: Cultural Studies of Science Education, 6 (2011) 2, S.441-444 (4 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1871-1502
DOI	10.1007/s11422-010-9267-5
Schlagwörter	Freedom; Foreign Policy; Global Approach; Language Acquisition; Personal Narratives; Alienation; Responses; Identification; Science Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Freiheit; Außenpolitik; Globales Denken; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Erlebniserzählung; Entfremdung; Identifikation; Identifizierung; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung
Abstract	This paper is written in response to a paper by Maria Rivera on issues of language and identity. I give an autobiographical account of my own experiences in relation to language identity and colonialism. I relate language and issues of alienation during the colonial time and I reflect on how that past is still currently distorting the way we look at our local language. I depict some episodes that, although they cannot be generalized, show how colonialism still deforms our cultural liberty. I conclude that only with cultural emancipation can we teach in a truly contextualized manner and do research based on our context. Only with cultural liberty we can be emancipated in the context of globalisation. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10