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Mwaniki, Munene |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2019-11-19T07:38:52Z |
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dc.date.available |
2019-11-19T07:38:52Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2018-06 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Journal for Contemporary History, Volume 43 Number 1, p. 215 - 241. 2018 |
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dc.identifier.issn |
0258-2422 (Print) |
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dc.identifier.issn |
2415-0509 (Online) |
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dc.identifier.uri |
https://journals.co.za/content/journal/10520/EJC-1005886de6?TRACK=RSS |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://repository.seku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/5442 |
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dc.description |
DOI : 10.18820/24150509/JCH43.v1.11 |
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dc.description.abstract |
For the better part of the last century the University of the Free State (UFS) – as the “most prestigious” higher education institution in the province – has been a key site for institutional language politics in the province. This brand of institutional language politics has been characterised by several contestations and permutations which can symbolically be described as a struggle for the soul of the UFS because of its far-reaching implications on UFS’s “curriculum as institution” and linguistic culture. Four critical junctures have defined UFS’s language politics over the last century. After a detailed characterisation of these critical junctures, the article argues and demonstrates that the contestations and permutations that have characterised institutional language politics at the UFS are a microcosm of the socio-political and economic struggles in the Free State Province through time, because of the centrality of the UFS in socio-political and economic discourses and dynamics of the province. |
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en |
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dc.subject |
Language politics |
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dc.subject |
University of the Free State (UFS) |
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curriculum as institution |
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dc.subject |
linguistic culture |
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dc.subject |
socio-political and economic struggles |
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dc.subject |
critical junctures |
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dc.subject |
Free State Province |
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dc.title |
Language politics and the struggle for the soul of the University of the Free State (UFS) : a microcosm of the socio-political and economic struggles in the Free State Province through time |
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dc.type |
Article |
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