Essays about: "postcolonial concepts"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 59 essays containing the words postcolonial concepts.

1. 6. Promoting Multilingualism as a Resource in Education : A Minor Field Study on a Senior Secondary School in The Gambia

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för skolutveckling och ledarskap (SOL)

   Author : Melinda Malmström; [2023]
   Keywords : Access to the Curriculum; Didactic Design; First Language; Language of Instruction; Language Domination; Linguistic and Cultural Diversity; Multilingualism;

   Abstract : AbstractThe study aims to explore how students’ linguistic resources are used for learning in a school in Gambia. The study is a field study and was conducted at a Senior Secondary School during January and February 2023. READ MORE

3. 7. Development Studies from a Decolonial Perspective:Discourse Analysis on the OECD Development Reports

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

   Author : Ana Lucía Garín Rodríguez; [2023]
   Keywords : Development; Decolonial Thought; Discourse Analysis; Postcolonial and Neo-colonial Theories; OECD; Global South; Wester-centrism.; Pensamiento Decolonial; Subalternidad; Pensamiento Latinoamericano;

   Abstract : The concept of development has been extensively researched, and it isa key topic in political and economic international and domestic agendas.Modernization and globalization theories have been the most prevalentanalytical approaches to development, but from a postcolonial and decolonialperspective, these theories are Western-centric, overgeneralized, andoverused. READ MORE

4. 8. Building Resilient States and Societies as Goal in the Joint Africa-EU Strategy : What’s the Problem Represented to be?

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

   Author : Giulia De Zorzi; [2023]
   Keywords : European Union; Africa; resilience; policy; WPR; postcolonialism;

   Abstract : This study concerns the problem representation behind the goal of building more resilient states and societies in EU-Africa policies. As resilience is a recent feature of the European Union’s policy discourse, the study aims at uncovering the problematisation behind its use towards Africa and, consequently, what interests lie behind this change of language. READ MORE

5. 9. From Enshrined Language of the State, to Secondary Language of Tourism, Trade and Education : The Development of Policies Regarding the Russian Language in the South Caucasus Region, During and After the Soviet Union

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

   Author : Felix Sigeback; [2023]
   Keywords : South Caucasus; language policy; postcolonialism; Russia; Armenia; Georgia; Azerbaijan; Russian; Soviet studies; post-Soviet studies;

   Abstract : The aim of my own research is to bind together the limited research done regarding the topic,and to use the research of Russian in the Baltic post-soviet state of Lithuania as a backdrop and comparison. The analysis is postcolonial and comparative, using the concepts of linkage and leverage of Levitsky and Way. READ MORE

6. 10. Colonial Tendencies of Voluntourism: A Postcolonial Analysis of Weltwärts Testimonials

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

   Author : Amelie Aue; [2023]
   Keywords : Voluntourism; Weltwärts; Development; Postcolonial Theory; Coloniality of Power; Orientalism; white Saviorism; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Voluntourism is often described as a sustainable development strategy facilitating Global Learning and cross-cultural exchange. Initiated by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the voluntourism program Weltwärts strives to create stronger international partnerships, development engagement, and equitable encounters. READ MORE