Munene Mwaniki

Munene Mwaniki
South Eastern Kenya University · Linguistics, Languages & Literature - School of Education Humanities and Social Sciences

PhD in Linguistics
Founder & Convenor - Multilingual Education and Literacies Research Group [MEL-RG]

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Introduction
Dr Munene Mwaniki is a Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics, Languages and Literature in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at South Eastern Kenya University in Kenya. Dr Mwaniki does research on Language Management epistemology and Language Management in Education in Multilingual Global South settings. He is the Founder and Convenor of the Multilingual Education and Literacies Research Group [MEL-RG] - a graduate data-led research and research-led teaching initiative.
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September 2017 - August 2020
University of the Witwatersrand
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  • Visiting Associate

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The chapter explores an under-researched aspect of South African higher education (HE), namely its language dynamics, from a relatively new perspective of effects of globalisation on language dynamics in South African HE. With a specific focus on Afrikaans, and using three data sets derived from an on-going research on sociolinguistics of South Afr...
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For the better part of the last century the University of the Free State (UFS)-as the "most prestigious" higher education institution in the province-has been a key site for institutional language politics in the province. This brand of institutional language politics has been characterised by several contestations and permutations which can symbol...
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In 2015, South African higher education witnessed student-driven activism in the form of various #Movements, beginning with the #RhodesMustFall campaign at the University of Cape Town which morphed into the national #FeesMustFall movement. A corollary to these #Movements was a language-specific #Movement namely #AfrikaansMustFall movement. Very lit...
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Against a backdrop of a 21st century defined by mobility of the world populations that has exponentially changed the linguistic and literacy spaces towards highly complex encounters in educational contexts, the chapter acknowledges benignly that in this emergent context, orthodox theories and practices on language and literacy education need to be...
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The article explores interfaces between language management and devolved governance in Kenya against the backdrop of language management theory and the roles and responsibilities of devolved governance as defined by traditional fiscal federalism, new public management (NPM), public choice, new institutional economics (NIE), and network forms of loc...
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The chapter is a critical appraisal of bilingual education policy scholarship and practice against a backdrop of contestations that characterize determination and execution of bilingual education goals and the spread of the idea of linguistic human rights in education – and discourses attendant and consequent to these processes. A dominant and recu...
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There is a dearth of research on the economics of language of Africa’s official and national languages, not to mention non-official, non-national indigenous languages. The article seeks to fill this hiatus using qualitative data from rural Kenya. A key finding is the discovery and characterisation of reciprocal/symbiotic relationships between indig...
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The article explores complementary aspects of two nascent developments in (socio) linguistics, namely translanguaging and language management using auto-ethnographic snapshots from class/lecture-room contexts in Kenya and South Africa. Translanguaging entails recognition of a full account of speakers’ discursive resources, which posits that ‘langua...
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Mother tongue education (MTE) has been a subject of rigorous debate for more than half a century, in both industrialised and developing societies. Despite disparate views on MTE, there is an uneasy consensus on its importance in educational systems, especially in the foundational years. Using the Language Management Framework, the article provides...
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The research reported on in this article sought to interrogate the impact of internationalisation on university language policies with a focus on how pressures of internationalisation influence the publication practices and choices of the language of publishing by researchers at the University of the Free State (UFS), Bloemfontein, South Africa. Th...
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Drawing from Game Theory, the article conceptualises language practice as games, that is convergences of strategic interaction, and explores the implications of such a conceptualisation for sociology of translation (la sociologie de la traduction – Michel Callon) in development contexts in Africa. The discussion posits that a conceptualisation of l...
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The paper interrogates the issue of language and social justice in South Africa's higher education using quantitative and qualitative data collected at the University of the Free State (UFS). Data were collected using questionnaires. Through purposive sampling based on South African and UFS demographics, 120 questionnaires were administered to UFS...
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From an Africanist standpoint, the paper maps the frontiers of the emerging language management paradigm in the study and practice of politics of language from the perspectives of theory, method, discipline, and practice. The discussion advances two core arguments. First, an Africanist interpretation of the discourse of the politics of language tha...
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Thesis (Ph.D. (Linguistics))--University of the Free State, 2004. Bibliography: leaves 303-317.
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World geo-economics of the last two decades have seriously impacted on governments’ capability to finance university teaching, research and community engagement, especially in the developing world. Over the same period however, the demands and expectations exerted on universities by government and society have increased phenomenally. To meet these...
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Within the emerging discourse of language management, there is an increasing realisation of the strategic role that language plays in multinational and supranational contexts. The article discusses the strategic role that language can and should play within the East African Community (EAC). The discussion is presented in four parts: the first prese...
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In certain contexts, policy and programme interventions aimed at linguistic inclusion could lead to linguistic and other forms of exclusion. As a case in point, the article reports and reflects on the constitutional review process in Kenya and the dialectics of language in this process: the Kenyan constitutional review process was anchored on lingu...

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