Learning in Morocco : Language Politics and the Abandoned Educational Dream / Charis Boutieri.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boutieri, Charis, 1981- author.

Series:

Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa.

Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Secondary--Political aspects--Morocco.

Education, Secondary.

Morocco--Politics and government--1999-.

Morocco.

Morocco--Languages--Political aspects.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana ; Indianapolis, [Indiana] : Indiana University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Learning in Morocco offers a rare look inside public education in the Middle East. While policymakers see a crisis in education based on demographics and financing, Moroccan high school students point to the effects of a highly politicized Arabization policy that has never been implemented coherently. In recent years, national policies to promote the use of Arabic have come into conflict with the demands of a neoliberal job market in which competence in French is still a prerequisite for advancement. Based on long-term research inside and outside classrooms, Charis Boutieri describes how students and teachers work within, or try to circumvent, the system, whose contradictory demands ultimately lead to disengagement and, on occasion, to students taking to the streets in protest.

Contents:

1. Schools in crisis

2. Study Antigone to become a scientist!

3. Paradox and passion in the Tower of Babel

4. Inheritance, heritage, and the disinherited : sacred Arabic

5. Once upon a time, there was a happy old Berber couple

6. Desires in languages

7. Out of class, into the street.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-268) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780253020505

0253020506

OCLC:

948030260