Mendelowitz, Ferreira and Dixon provide us with a compelling account of what critical English teacher education can look like in multilingual and highly unequal contexts. Meticulously and provocatively described and analysed, this is a courageous and honest account of 16 years of experience in “critical-creative” pedagogies that unsettle dominant language ideologies, and foreground the powerful language resources of multilingual African language speaking students.

Carolyn McKinney, Associate Professor of Language Education, University of Cape Town, South Africa

This searing treatise invites us to become good story tellers and students of society – once again. Troubling the stranglehold of traditional orthodoxy in language education pedagogical designs, this book is a long-awaited addition that deserves a space on the bookshelves of all social scientists committed to thinking and theorizing otherwise.

Finex Ndhlovu, University of New England, Australia

Based on students’ narrations about their lived experience of language and their perceptions of unequal power relations and social exclusion the authors cover a period of considerable social changes – something only very few titles can provide. With its orientation on decolonizing methodologies the book offers a much needed perspective from the global south.

Brigitta Busch, University of Vienna, Austria and Stellenbosch University, South Africa

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This book unravels the complexity of language, power and identity with cogency, lucidity and courage. Through an analysis that combines theoretical rigor with a kaleidoscope of compelling personal narratives, Mendelowitz, Ferreira and Dixon dispel the myth that storytelling has no place in academic discourse by showing how it can promote inclusion and social justice in education.

Andrea Parmegiani, Professor, Bronx Community College of the City University of New York, USA and North-West University Vanderbijlpark, South Africa

Winner of the UKLA Academic Book Award 2024Shortlisted for the ASSAf Humanities Book Award 2024This open access 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 ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Wits University Open Access Publishing Fund.
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Series Editors' ForewordVoices IIntroduction1. The Story of a Course2. Narrative Ways of Knowing3. Pedagogy in MotionVoices II4. (Re)Constructing Identities in Relation to Powerful and Marginalised Languages5. Juxtaposing Creative and Critical Genres in a Heteroglossic PedagogyVoices III6. Enacting the Critical Imagination7. English and/in the Colonial Matrix of PowerFinal VoicesReferencesIndex
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Provides a framework for conceptualizing and enacting multilingual pedagogies for English language education in contexts of diversity.
Offers insights into the lived experiences of students in a superdiverse context and its implications for an inclusive language classroom
Multilingualism and diversity are fast becoming defining characteristics of global education. This is because human mobility has increased exponentially over the past two decades, bringing about an increase in socioeconomic, cultural and faith-based diversity with consequences for citizenship, identity, education, and practices of language and literacy(among others).The Multilingualisms and Diversities in Education series takes a global perspective of the 21st-century societal diversities. It looks at the languages through which these diversities are conveyed, and how they are changing the theoretical foundations and practice of formal and non-formal education. Multilingualisms and diversities in this series are understood as dynamic and variable phenomena, processes and realities. They are viewed alongside: classroom practices (including curriculum, assessment, methodologies); teacher development (pre- and in-service; and in non-formal education); theory-building; research and evaluation; and policy considerations.Volumes in the series articulate the opportunities and challenges afforded by contemporary diversities andmultilingualisms across global settings at local, national and international levels. A distinctive aim of the series is to provide a platform for reciprocal exchanges of expertise among stakeholders located in different southern and northern contexts.Advisory Board:Marilda Cavalcanti (University of Campinas, Brazil)Feliciano Chimbutane (Eduardo Mondlane University,Mozambique)Hywel Coleman (University of Leeds, UK)Ofelia García (City University of New York, USA)Durk Gorter (Basque Foundation for Science, Spain)Nancy Hornberger (University of Pennsylvania, USA)Caroline Kerfoot (Stockholm University, Sweden)Constant Leung (Kings College London, UK)Joseph Lo Bianco (University of Melbourne, Australia)Sinfree Makoni (Pennsylvania State University, USA)Marilyn Martin-Jones (University of Birmingham, UK)Pamela Maseko (University of the Western Cape, South Africa)Stephen May (University of Auckland, New Zealand)Angela Scarino (University of South Australia, Australia)Stef Slembrouck (University of Ghent, Belgium)Anita Rampal (University of Delhi, India)Lionel Wee (National University of Singapore, Singapore)Li Wei (University College London, UK)Terry Wiley (Center for Applied Linguistics, USA)
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781350165915
Publisert
2023-01-12
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
256

Om bidragsyterne

Belinda Mendelowitz is Senior Lecturer in Languages, Literacies & Literatures at the School of Education at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

Ana Ferreira is Senior Lecturer in Languages, Literacies & Literatures at the School of Education of the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

Kerryn Dixon is Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Nottingham, UK.