Challenges and opportunities for Haitian Creole in the educational system of post-earthquake Haiti
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Flore Zéphir
Abstract
A critical question that has recently surfaced in the discourse of reconstruction in Haiti is the role that the education system will have to play in creating new generations of educated citizens for a new post-earthquake Haitian society. Central to discussions about the educational system is the “thorny” language question. Should the language of instruction in the school system continue to be French or should it be Haitian Creole? The present research note examines the relationship between French and Creole in Haiti since colonial times and the resulting linguistic ideologies that have developed over time. In addition, it reviews the various promising developments that have taken place in the educational system both before and after the earthquake, and ends with a discussion of future challenges.
©2015 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Munich/Boston
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- Transnacionalidad e identidades lingüísticas en la frontera dominico-haitiana
- Representing and regimenting languages in a transnational setting: the case of the Haitian-Dominican border
- Ethnic difference and language ideologies in popular Dominican literature: the case of Haitianized speech
- The Haitian language: defying odds and opening possibilities
- Research Notes
- Challenges and opportunities for Haitian Creole in the educational system of post-earthquake Haiti
- Reflections inspired by a scholarly book on the Haitian Creole language and a good old-fashioned language debate
- Book Reviews
- Book Review
- New insights into the emergence of whiteness in Dominican national discourse
