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Accented Futures: Language Activism and the Ending of Apartheid
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Description for Accented Futures: Language Activism and the Ending of Apartheid
Paperback. In this wonderfully original, intensely personal yet deeply analytical work, Carli Coetzee argues that difference and disagreement can be forms of activism to bring about social change, inside and outside the teaching environment. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AMV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 153 x 12. Weight in Grams: 288.
In this wonderfully original, intensely personal yet deeply analytical work, Carli Coetzee argues that difference and disagreement can be forms of activism to bring about social change, inside and outside the teaching environment. Since it is not the student alone who needs to be transformed, she proposes a model of teaching that is insistent on the teacher’s scholarship as a tool for hearing the many voices and accents in the South African classroom.
For Coetzee, ‘accentedness’ is a description for actively working towards the ending of apartheid by being aware of the legacies of the past, without ... Read more
In this wonderfully original, intensely personal yet deeply analytical work, Carli Coetzee argues that difference and disagreement can be forms of activism to bring about social change, inside and outside the teaching environment. Since it is not the student alone who needs to be transformed, she proposes a model of teaching that is insistent on the teacher’s scholarship as a tool for hearing the many voices and accents in the South African classroom.
For Coetzee, ‘accentedness’ is a description for actively working towards the ending of apartheid by being aware of the legacies of the past, without ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Wits University Press
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Johannesburg, South Africa
ISBN
9781868147403
SKU
V9781868147403
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Ref
99-15
About Unknown
Carli Coetzee is a Senior Teaching Fellow at SOAS, University of London, Honorary Research Fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and Associate Academic at HUMA, University of Cape Town.
Reviews for Accented Futures: Language Activism and the Ending of Apartheid
“This is a superb contribution to thinking about the teaching and transmutation of the culture of letters in South Africa.” - Arlene Archer, University of Cape Town