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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Indiana University Press
ISBN-13
9780253020499
eBay Product ID (ePID)
221315008
Product Key Features
Author
Charis Boutieri
Publication Name
Learning in Morocco: Language Politics and the Abandoned Educational Dream
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Education, Anthropology, History
Publication Year
2016
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
292 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
390g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Charis Boutieri
Series Title
Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa