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  1. Editorial: five paradigms about language use in Africa.

    Article • Language Policy in Africa, December 2025, University of Bern

    Dr Bert van Pinxteren

  2. Editorial

    Article • Language Policy in Africa, May 2025, University of Bern

    Dr Bert van Pinxteren

  3. Editorial: The Relevance of Language Policy in Africa

    Article • Language Policy in Africa, May 2025, University of Bern

    Dr Bert van Pinxteren

  4. The concepts of discerned and designed languages and their relevance for East Africa

    Article • Language Policy in Africa, May 2025, University of Bern

    Dr Bert van Pinxteren

  5. Let’s Look at the Bigger Picture. Educational and Language Sciences in and on Africa or the Problem of the 2000 Languages

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Bert van Pinxteren

  6. Decolonizing Cameroon’s language policies: a critical assessment

    Article • Applied Linguistics Review, July 2024, De Gruyter

    Dr Bert van Pinxteren

  7. The relevance of medium of instruction and mother tongue for different types of educational systems

    Article • International Journal of Educational Development, November 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Bert van Pinxteren

  8. The “Elephant in the Room”: Why and How Medium of Instruction and Decolonisation of Education are Linked

    Article • Journal of Contemporary Issues in Education, December 2022, University of Alberta Libraries

    Dr Bert van Pinxteren

  9. How WEIRD is the US and why does this matter for the rest of the world?

    Article • November 2022, Qeios Ltd

    Dr Bert van Pinxteren

  10. Introducing African languages in higher education will become necessary in Nigeria.

    Article • Language Problems & Language Planning, October 2022, John Benjamins

    Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju, Dr Bert van Pinxteren

  11. Why will it be necessary to use Ghanaian languages as medium of instruction in higher education?

    Article • Policy Futures in Education, July 2022, SAGE Publications

    Dr Bert van Pinxteren

  12. Multilingualism and Multiculturalism

    Article • June 2022, IGI Global

    Dr Bert van Pinxteren

  13. Language of instruction in education in Africa: How new questions help generate new answers

    Article • International Journal of Educational Development, January 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Bert van Pinxteren

  14. Why is a gradual transition to Botswana’s languages in higher education necessary? How can it be achieved?

    Article • Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, October 2021, Informa UK Limited

    Dr Bert van Pinxteren

  15. Education for Resilience: How a Combination of Systemic and Bottom-Up Changes in Educational Services Can Empower Dryland Communities in Africa and Central Asia

    Article • Journal of Asian and African Studies, September 2020, SAGE Publications

    Dr Bert van Pinxteren

  16. Cultural Autonomy and Cultural Dimensions in Africa

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Bert van Pinxteren

  17. African identities - a new perspective.

    Article • Cross-Cultural Research, March 2019, SAGE Publications

    Dr Bert van Pinxteren

  18. African Languages in Wikipedia A Glass Half Full or Half Empty?

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Bert van Pinxteren

  19. What Do Enrolment Data Say About Education, Using Bourdieu's Approach?

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Bert van Pinxteren