The Languaging of Higher Education in the Global South

Sinfree Makoni is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Pennsylvania State University, US. Cristine G. Severo is Associate Professor of Language Policy and Linguistics at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil. Ashraf Abdelhay is Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar. Anna Kaiper-Marquez is Associate Director and Assistant Teaching Professor of the Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy and the Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy at Pennsylvania State University, US.

Introduction Part 1: Confronting Epistemological Language Issues 1. Global North Technocratic Discourse in Arab Higher Education: The Case of a North American Technical College in an Arab State 2. Reflections on the Global North and Global South Engagement Initiative in Kinigi, Rwanda 3. Polycentric or Pluricentric? Epistemic Traps in Sociolinguistic Approaches to Multilingual Portuguese 4. RE-. Vocabularies we live by in the Language and Educational Sciences Part 2: Language Policy in Postcolonial Academic Contexts 5. Decolonizing Epistemology in Sudanese Linguistics: Integrationist and Political Perspectives 6. Multilingualism at South African Universities: A Eeflection from an Integrationist Perspective 7. ‘Everyone was Happy When Talking’: Revisiting the Use of Mother Tongues in Kenyan Universities 8. Existential Sociolinguistics: The Fundamentals of the Political Legitimacy of Linguistic Minority Rights Part 3: Languaging Pedagogy in Post-Secondary Contexts 9. Teaching Gender Awareness in Teacher Education through a Curriculum which De-links from Abyssal Thinking 10. Recontextualization of the Author’s and Reader’s Positions in Simone De Beauvoir’s Le Deuxième Sexe in the Turkish Cultural Environment Through Translation Part 4: Technology and Decolonial Practices 11. Languaging in Computer-Mediated Communication: Heteroglossia and Stylization in Online Education 12. (How) Can Critical Posthumanism Help to Decolonize Tertiary Education in the South in the Age of Cognitive Capitalism? 13. Concluding Commentary