Translanguaging, Coloniality and Decolonial Cracks

2023-01-13
Translanguaging, Coloniality and Decolonial Cracks

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  • Author: Robyn Tyler
  • Publisher: Channel View Publications
  • ISBN: 1800412002
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 152

In this linguistic ethnography of bilingual science learning in a South African high school, the author connects microanalyses of classroom discourse to broader themes of de/coloniality in education. The book challenges the deficit narrative often used to characterise the capabilities of linguistically-minoritised youth, and explores the challenges and opportunities associated with leveraging students’ full semiotic repertoires in learning specific concepts. The author examines the linguistic landscape of the school and the beliefs and attitudes of staff and students which produce both coloniality and cracks in the edifice of coloniality. A critical translanguaging lens is applied to analyse multilingual and multimodal aspects of students’ science meaning-making in a traditional classroom and a study group intervention. Finally, the book suggests implications for decolonial pedagogical translanguaging in Southern multilingual classrooms.

Decolonizing Foreign Language Education

2019-01-10
Decolonizing Foreign Language Education

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  • Author: Donaldo Macedo
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 0429841736
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 316

Decolonizing Foreign Language Education interrogates current foreign language and second language education approaches that prioritize white, western thought. Edited by acclaimed critical theorist and linguist Donaldo Macedo, this volume includes cutting-edge work by a select group of critical language scholars working to rigorously challenge the marginalization of foreign language education and the displacement of indigenous and non-standard language varieties through the reification of colonial languages. Each chapter confronts the hold of colonialism and imperialism that inform and shape the relationship between foreign language education and literary studies by asserting that a critical approach to applied linguistics is just as important a tool for FL/ESL/EFL educators as literature or linguistic theory.

Decoloniality, Language and Literacy

2021-12-20
Decoloniality, Language and Literacy

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  • Author: Carolyn McKinney
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1788929268
  • Category : Political Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 318

Through a range of unconventional genres, representations of data, and dialogic, reflective narratives alongside more traditional academic genres, this book engages with contexts of decoloniality and border thinking in the Global South. It addresses processes of knowledge production and participation in the highly divided and unequal schooling and higher education system in South Africa, and highlights the consequences of the monolingual myth in post-colonial education, demonstrating opportunities for learning provided by translanguaging. It explores both embodied, multimodal and multilingual instances of knowledge-making in teaching and teacher education that take place outside but alongside formal classroom, lecture and seminar modes, and the positionality and learning experiences of teacher educators in science, literacy and language across the curriculum. The book is not only transdisciplinary but also captures the learning that takes place beyond the borders of disciplines and formal classroom spaces.

Colonial and Decolonial Linguistics

2021-01-09
Colonial and Decolonial Linguistics

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  • Author: Ana Deumert
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • ISBN: 0198793200
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 394

This volume offers a detailed exploration of coloniality in the discipline of linguistics, with case studies drawn from across the world. The chapters provide a nuanced account of the coloniality of linguistics at the level of knowledge and disciplinary practice, and expand their discussion to imagine a decolonial linguistics.

Language Narratives and Shifting Multilingual Pedagogies

2022-12-15
Language Narratives and Shifting Multilingual Pedagogies

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  • Author: Belinda Mendelowitz
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • ISBN: 1350165921
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 249

This book challenges monoglossic ideologies, traditional language pedagogies and dominant forms of knowledge construction by foregrounding multilingual and multicultural students' language narratives, repertoires, and identities. The research is based on a sixteen-year longitudinal study of a sociolinguistics course at an English language university and the language narratives produced by the first-year education students. The study was borne out of a need to create a critically inclusive course that would engage a cohort of students from socially and linguistically diverse backgrounds in contemporary South Africa. Drawing on data from over 5,000 students who have journeyed through this course, this book shows how a narrative heteroglossic pedagogy harnesses students' multilingual strengths. A close analysis reveals complex identity work by students located in the Global South. The authors argue that decolonising language education is about reconceptualising language, reconfiguring what knowledges are valued in the classroom, and reshaping pedagogy.

The Handbook of Dual Language Bilingual Education

2023-09-29
The Handbook of Dual Language Bilingual Education

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  • Author: Juan A. Freire
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 100093389X
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 745

This handbook presents a state-of-the-art overview of dual language bilingual education (DLBE) research, programs, pedagogy, and practice. Organized around four sections—theoretical foundations; key issues and trends; school-based practices; and teacher and administrator preparation—the volume comprehensively addresses major and emerging topics in the field. With contributions from expert scholars, the handbook highlights programs that honor the assets of language-minoritized and marginalized students and provides empirically grounded guidance for asset-based instruction. Chapters cover historical and policy considerations, leadership, family relations, professional development, community partnerships, race, class, gender, and more. Synthesizing major issues, discussing central themes and advancing policy and practice, this handbook is a seminal volume and definitive reference text in bilingual/second language education.

Becoming a Globally Competent Teacher

2019-07-24
Becoming a Globally Competent Teacher

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  • Author: Ariel Tichnor-Wagner
  • Publisher: ASCD
  • ISBN: 1416627545
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 279

Teachers today must prepare students for an increasingly complex, interconnected, and interdependent world. Being a globally competent teacher requires embracing a mindset that translates personal global competence into professional classroom practice. It is a vision of equitable teaching and learning that enables students to thrive in an ever-changing world. This thought-provoking book introduces a proven self-reflection tool to help educators of all grade levels and content areas develop 12 elements of such teaching. The book is divided into three sections: dispositions, knowledge, and skills. Each chapter is devoted to an element of globally competent teaching and includes a description of that element, tips for implementation delineated by developmental levels, and links to additional resources for continuing the journey. Examples of globally competent teaching practices include - Empathy and valuing multiple perspectives. - A commitment to promoting equity worldwide. - An understanding of global conditions and current events. - The ability to engage in intercultural communication. - A classroom environment that values diversity and global engagement. Throughout, you'll also find examples of these practices at work from real teachers in real schools. No matter what your experience with global teaching, the information in this book will help you further develop your practice as a global educator—a teacher who prepares students not only for academic success but also for a life in which they are active participants in their own communities and the wider world.

The Translanguaging Classroom

2017
The Translanguaging Classroom

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  • Author: Ofelia García
  • Publisher: Caslon Publishing
  • ISBN: 9781934000199
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

"Shows teachers how to strategically navigate the dynamic flow of bilingual students' language practices to (1) enable students to engage with and comprehend complex content and texts, (2) develop students' linguistic practices for academic contexts, (3) draw on students' bilingualism and bilingual ways of understanding, and (2) support students' socioemotional development and advance social justice"--provided by the publisher.

Understanding Higher Education

2021-08-23
Understanding Higher Education

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  • Author: Chrissie Bowie
  • Publisher: African Books Collective
  • ISBN: 1928502229
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 182

Drawing on the South African case, this book looks at shifts in higher education around the world in the last two decades. In South Africa, calls for transformation have been heard in the university since the last days of apartheid. Similar claims for quality higher education to be made available to all have been made across the African continent. In spite of this, inequalities remain and many would argue that these have been exacerbated during the Covid pandemic. Understanding Higher Education responds to these calls by arguing for a social account of teaching and learning by contesting dominant understandings of students as decontextualised learners premised on the idea that the university is a meritocracy. This book tackles the issue of teaching and learning by looking both within and beyond the classroom. It looks at how higher education policies emerged from the notion of the knowledge economy in the newly democratic South Africa, and how national qualification frameworks and other processes brought the country more closely into conversation with the global order. The effects of this on staffing and curriculum structures are considered alongside a proposition for alternative ways of understanding the role of higher education in society.

The Myth of the Normal Curve

2010
The Myth of the Normal Curve

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  • Author: Curt Dudley-Marling
  • Publisher: Peter Lang
  • ISBN: 9781433107290
  • Category : Children with disabilities
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 276

"The Myth of the Normal Curve provides a much-needed critique of commonly and even scientifically accepted notions of normality. For too long we have supported an ideology of normality without much interrogation of the subject. This book provides that interrogation."---Lennard J. Davis, Professor of English and Disability Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago --Book Jacket.