Lecture to focus on language policy and ideology in Namibian society

From noon to 1 p.m. on Feb. 28, Rodney Hopson, Hillman distinguished professor in the Department of Educational Foundations and Leadership and the Center for Interpretive and Qualitative Research at Duquesne University, will present a seminar sponsored by the Interinstitutional Consortium for Indigenous Knowledge in room 208 of the Ford Building on Penn State's University Park campus. In his seminar, titled “Language Policy, Ideology, Rights and Indigenous in Post-Independent Namibia,” Hopson will reflect on the status of indigenous groups in current-day Namibia through a discussion of the larger issues and complexities of language policy and ideology within the Namibian society and its schools in particular.