Translanguaging and Epistemological Decentring in Higher Education and Research -

Translanguaging and Epistemological Decentring in Higher Education and Research

Buch | Softcover
288 Seiten
2023
Multilingual Matters (Verlag)
978-1-80041-088-6 (ISBN)
43,55 inkl. MwSt
Using data from universities in Asia, Central and North America, Europe and the Maghreb, this book provides examples of the heuristic value of translanguaging and epistemological decentring, and argues that decentring cannot happen until learners are able to identify which sorts of centring dynamics and conditions are salient to their learning.
Using data from multilingual settings in universities and adjacent learning contexts in East Asia, North Africa, Central and North America and Europe, this book provides examples of the heuristic value of translanguaging and epistemological decentring. Despite this and other theoretical and empirical work, and ever stronger calls for the inclusion of other languages, epistemologies and constructions of culture in higher education, decentring and translanguaging practices are often relegated to the margins or suppressed in research and education because of the organisational structures of education institutions and prevailing language norms, policies and ideologies. The authors draw on research on pluri- and multilingualism within education studies, as well as post- and decolonial theoretical contributions to the research on the role of language in education and knowledge production, to provide evidence that decentring cannot happen until learners have been given the tools to identify which sorts of centring dynamics and conditions are salient to their learning and (trans)languaging.

Heidi Bojsen is Associate Professor at Roskilde University, Denmark. Her research in plurilingual learning and communication, and its ties with epistemological decentring is inspired by the works of Caribbean, Maghrebian and West African intellectuals. With Ismaël Compaoré she directs the international research network Media, Security Crises and Youth in West Africa. Petra Daryai-Hansen is Associate Professor and coordinator of cross-disciplinary courses and degrees at the Department of English, German and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her main research area is foreign language education with specific focus on plurilingual education, Content and Language Integrated Learning, intercultural education and teacher/student cognition. Anne Holmen is Professor and Head of the Centre for Internationalisation and Parallel Language Use, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She took part in the first longitudinal Danish study on the development of bilingualism in school-age children (the Koege-project) and in a number of Nordic collaborative projects, including school-related projects in Greenland. Karen Risager is Professor Emerita in Cultural Encounters, Roskilde University, Denmark. Her research field is language and intercultural education from a transnational and global perspective. She has published widely, including Representations of the World in Language Textbooks (Multilingual Matters, 2018; re-published in China by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Publishing, 2021).

Contributors



Chapter 1. Heidi Bojsen, Petra Daryai-Hansen, Anne Holmen and Karen Risager: Introduction: The Nexus of Translanguaging and Epistemological Decentring in Higher Education and Research



Chapter 2. Heidi Bojsen: Translanguaging, Epistemological Decentring and Power: A Study of Students’ Perspectives and Learning



Chapter 3. Marta Kirilova, Anne Holmen and Sanne Larsen: More Languages for More Students: Practice, Ideology and Management



Chapter 4. Deborah Charlotte Darling and Fred Dervin: Glimpses Into the ‘Language Galaxy’ of International Universities: International Students’ Multilingual and Translanguaging Experiences and Strategies at a Top Finnish University



Chapter 5. Petra Daryai-Hansen, Danièle Moore, Daniel Roy Pearce and Mayo Oyama: Fostering Students' Decentring and Multiperspectivity: A Cross-Discussion on Translanguaging as a Plurilingual Tool in Higher Education



Chapter 6. Rutie Adler, Annamaria Bellezza, Claire Kramsch, Chika Shibahara and Lihua Zhang: Teaching the Conflicts in American Foreign Language Education



Chapter 7. Heidi Bojsen, Joshua Sabih and Khalid Zekri: On Matrouzity: Translanguaging and Decentring Plurilingual Practices in Morocco



Chapter 8. Louise Tranekjær: Foreign Language Learning ‘in the Wild’ and Epistemological Decentering



Chapter 9. Karen Risager: Strategies of Decentring in Translingual Research: Reflections on a Research Project



Chapter 10. Introduced by Heidi Bojsen, Petra Daryai-Hansen, Anne Holmen and Karen Risager: Student Testimonies: Translanguaging and Epistemological Decentring from a Student Perspective



Chapter 11. Abstracts of Chapters 2-9. A Courtesy for Selective Readers



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Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 410 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Erwachsenenbildung
ISBN-10 1-80041-088-3 / 1800410883
ISBN-13 978-1-80041-088-6 / 9781800410886
Zustand Neuware
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