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The English-everywhere agenda in education in a multilingual Cameroon (23 Nov 2015)

Published: Dec. 3, 2015, 12:31 p.m.

The English-everywhere agenda in education in a highly multilingual Cameroon: Towards a recipe for disaster?\n\nCameroon is one of the most multilingual countries in the world. But the history of languages-in-education in Cameroon is marked by the very absence of Cameroonian languages from the mainstream education system.\nDuring this seminar Dr. Seraphin Kamdem(SOAS) discussed the recent developments of the English-everywhere agenda in the school education system and critically presented some of the pedagogic and operational challenges faced by this contentious agenda.\nChair: Dr Carli Coetzee