Explanations for the use of languages of wider communication in education in developing countries |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Health Sciences, University of Florence, Florence, Italy;2. Department of Psychiatry & Psychology, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, the Netherlands;3. Addiction Unit, Verona University Hospital, piazzale Aristide Stefani 1, 37126 Verona, Italy;1. Department of Radiology, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL), Lausanne, Switzerland;2. Signal Processing Laboratory (LTS5), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland;3. Office Médico-Pédagogique, Department of Psychiatry, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland;4. Stanford Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience Laboratory, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, USA;5. Service Universitaire de Psychiatrie de l''Enfant et de l''Adolescent (SUPEA), Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL), Lausanne, Switzerland;1. Maternal-Fetal Medicine Division (Placenta Clinic), Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto ON;2. Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto ON;3. Department of Pediatrics, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto ON |
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| Abstract: | This paper analyzes the explanations suggested by language and educational policy scholars for the use of languages of wider communication in education in developing countries. Five explanations are discussed and critiqued, namely national integration, comparative cost, international communication, elite closure, and the world-system; each explanation is driven by assumptions about the nature of society (functional or radical-functional) and the level at which ‘society’ operates (national or international). Too narrow an adherence to a particular configuration of assumptions may foreclose for scholars a broad understanding of the dynamics which inform language policy decisions in developing countries. |
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