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Learning in Morocco : language politics and the abandoned educational dream / Charis Boutieri.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Public cultures of the Middle East and North AfricaPublisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780253020505
  • 0253020506
  • 9780253020512
  • 0253020514
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Learning in morocco.DDC classification:
  • 373.64 23
LOC classification:
  • LA1942 .B68 2016eb
Online resources:
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.
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.
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Print version record.

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.

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.

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