La littératie pulaar : nationalisme culturel, mouvement social ou instrument du développement ?

Can international literacy projects be harmful to socially integrated and sustainable literacy, including mother tongue literacy? What we call here mouvement Pulaar offers a fruitful case study to discuss this issue. This article analyzes the relationship between Haalpulaar’en people (northern Seneg...

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Main Author: Marie-Ève Humery
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Language:fra
Published: Les éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’Homme 2013-05-01
Series:Cahiers de la Recherche sur l'Education et les Savoirs
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/cres/2348
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description Can international literacy projects be harmful to socially integrated and sustainable literacy, including mother tongue literacy? What we call here mouvement Pulaar offers a fruitful case study to discuss this issue. This article analyzes the relationship between Haalpulaar’en people (northern Senegal) and development agents. First language literacy had in fact been promoted as part of an international program for local development. The mouvement Pulaar is based on people’s desire to read and write in Fula, as a way to preserve their cultural identity that might be threatened by the expansion of other languages, but also as a way to produce changes in social relations based on gender, age or social status. Discussing the motivations and the social changes and dynamics produced by Pulaar literacy projects as they are perceived by villagers, this fieldwork-based paper will identify the lines of a complex, ambivalent and sometimes fluctuating framework between these opposing forces: an obvious Pulaar literacy desire on one hand and on the other hand the issue of controlling the socio-scriptural space.
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spelling doaj-art-bb6e862445f741cfbbe0e445bf228b9c2025-08-20T02:34:13ZfraLes éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’HommeCahiers de la Recherche sur l'Education et les Savoirs1635-35442265-77622013-05-011215317610.4000/cres.2348La littératie pulaar : nationalisme culturel, mouvement social ou instrument du développement ?Marie-Ève HumeryCan international literacy projects be harmful to socially integrated and sustainable literacy, including mother tongue literacy? What we call here mouvement Pulaar offers a fruitful case study to discuss this issue. This article analyzes the relationship between Haalpulaar’en people (northern Senegal) and development agents. First language literacy had in fact been promoted as part of an international program for local development. The mouvement Pulaar is based on people’s desire to read and write in Fula, as a way to preserve their cultural identity that might be threatened by the expansion of other languages, but also as a way to produce changes in social relations based on gender, age or social status. Discussing the motivations and the social changes and dynamics produced by Pulaar literacy projects as they are perceived by villagers, this fieldwork-based paper will identify the lines of a complex, ambivalent and sometimes fluctuating framework between these opposing forces: an obvious Pulaar literacy desire on one hand and on the other hand the issue of controlling the socio-scriptural space.https://journals.openedition.org/cres/2348LiteracyDevelopmentFula language (Pulaar)Fulani peopleWomen’s empowerment
spellingShingle Marie-Ève Humery
La littératie pulaar : nationalisme culturel, mouvement social ou instrument du développement ?
Cahiers de la Recherche sur l'Education et les Savoirs
Literacy
Development
Fula language (Pulaar)
Fulani people
Women’s empowerment
title La littératie pulaar : nationalisme culturel, mouvement social ou instrument du développement ?
title_full La littératie pulaar : nationalisme culturel, mouvement social ou instrument du développement ?
title_fullStr La littératie pulaar : nationalisme culturel, mouvement social ou instrument du développement ?
title_full_unstemmed La littératie pulaar : nationalisme culturel, mouvement social ou instrument du développement ?
title_short La littératie pulaar : nationalisme culturel, mouvement social ou instrument du développement ?
title_sort la litteratie pulaar nationalisme culturel mouvement social ou instrument du developpement
topic Literacy
Development
Fula language (Pulaar)
Fulani people
Women’s empowerment
url https://journals.openedition.org/cres/2348
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