In linguistically heterogeneous societies, language planning constitutes core institutional practice for maintaining social cohesion as well as unique cultural identities. This critical sociolinguistic and comparative analysis examines education language policy process in India,…
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Sakun (Sukur) is a Chadic language from the Biu-Mandara branch spoken by approximately 20,000 people in and around the UNESCO Sukur World Heritage site in Adamawa State, Nigeria. Previous work on Sakun is limited to wordlists collected by ethnographers and archaeologists working…
This study analyses the circumstances leading to the development and current decline of public libraries in Egypt and advances a new interpretation of this phenomenon, based on a "problem context" approach. In addition to the internal dynamics that have provided the rationale fo…
In the late 1990s an attempt got underway to develop a new paradigm for cultural development policy at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). The fruit of these efforts was the adoption of the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of …
This study explores models for the reform of higher education in Egypt, and warns of potential consequences arising from the adoption of models based exclusively on the requirements of the knowledge economy and which fail to take account of the public role of national universiti…
Implementing land management solutions that address the on-going decline global biodiversity decline remain a priority for all sectors of global environmental governance. Through their global network of biosphere reserves, the UNESCO man and biosphere programme provides global l…
Under the aegis of the 1972 UNESCO World Heritage Convention, heritage preservation has gained considerable public visibility, but it has also become gridlocked in multilateral diplomacy. This thesis examines the history and challenges, of implementing, within UNESCO, the ideal …