@article{education2020895,
author={Nankindu, Prosperous},
title={The History of Educational Language Policies in Uganda: Lessons from the Past},
journal={American Journal of Educational Research},
volume={8},
number={9},
pages={643--652},
year={2020},
url={http://pubs.sciepub.com/education/8/9/5},
issn={2327-6150},
abstract={Education language policies in Uganda are traced way back in 1890¡¯s during the first missionary activities. Since then, Uganda has had several commissions which tried to sort out the issues of language in education. This paper makes a collection and commentary on those commissions. The commissions are presented in different sections in this paper according to the period of occurrence. The sections are: (1) The Colonial Period 1894-1960, (2) The Post World War II Period 1944-1961, (3) The Post-Colonial Period 1963-1988 and (4) The 1989 Kajubi Education Policy Review Commission. In all the debates, arguments were rotating around the use of English only, mother tongue / vernacular only, or both. To date, similar debates are still going on in Uganda. For a multilingual country, the most appropriate language policy in education would be of a multilingual nature.},
doi={10.12691/education-8-9-5}
publisher={Science and Education Publishing}
}