Senegal : Indigenous Language and Literature as a Non-Profit Business - The ARED Story

Easton, Peter ; Fagerberg-Diallo, Sonja

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE;    NATIVE LANGUAGES;    LITERACY PROGRAMS;    TRADITIONAL CULTURE;    LOCAL KNOWLEDGE;   

RP-ID  :  23000

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

The note briefly describes theAssociates in Research and Education for Development - ARED- experience, as well as that of the Center for Studies onResearch and Development of African Languages - CERFLA -working towards sustaining literacy education, inparticular, within the "fulaphones" regions inSenegal, to preserve their native languages. The experienceshows traditional culture is strong, despite its minoritystatus, which has nonetheless revitalized the culturalcontext, and enhanced literacy education in nativelanguages. ARED undertook efforts to publish, anddisseminate textbooks, either written in, or translated intonative languages, including French texts, covering subjectsfrom literacy manuals, stories and novels, to thedevelopment of civil society, and treaties on localknowledge, and traditional practices, or religions.ARED's high points include deciphering the needs forsuch enterprise, based on strong institutional capacity inaccounting and management, and, ironically, the informationrevolution has simplified, and sustained publication inAfrican languages.