Integrating lucid theoretical exposition with a series of vivid first-hand accounts of university teaching, this book is a vital point of reference for anyone asking what decoloniality and linguistic citizenship might actually mean for their own practice in higher education.

Ben Rampton, Professor of Applied Linguistics and Sociolinguistics, King’s College London, UK

Deepening linguistic citizenship, Bock and Stroud present here pluriversal ways of acting linguistically in order to disengage from language coloniality. Centering voices from South Africa, language is presented here as loving entanglements with Others, opening up alternative forms of knowledge and new indexical orderings to reimagine multilingualism and social justice work worldwide.

Ofelia García, Professor Emerita, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA

As an exploration into the transformative potential of multilingualism, this edited collection is an important contribution to sociolinguistics.

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Language and Decoloniality in Higher Education brings together a collection of diverse papers that address, from various angles, the issue of decoloniality, language and transformation in higher education. It reflects the authors’ cumulative years of experience as educators in higher education in different southern contexts. Distilled as case studies, the authors use a range of decolonial lenses to reflect on questions of knowledge, language and learning, and to build a reflexive praxis of decoloniality through multilingualism. Besides a number of decolonial persepectives which readers will be familiar with, this volume also explores a conceptual framework, Linguistic Citizenship, developed over the past two decades by scholars in southern Africa. In this collection, Linguistic Citizenship is used as a lens to ‘think beyond’ the inherited colonial matrices of language which have shaped this region (and many other southern contexts) for centuries, and to ‘re-imagine’ multilingualism – and semiotics, more broadly – as a transformative resource in the broader project of social justice. Although each chapter has firm roots in the South African context, these studies have much to offer others in their ‘quest for better worlds’. Of particular interest to global scholars are the authors’ recounts of how they have grappled with leveraging the country’s multilingual resources in the project of promoting academic access and success in the face of historical hierarchies of language and social power.
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Notes on Contributors Series Editor Foreword Foreword: A Decolonial Project, Lynn Mario T. Menezes de Souza, (University of São Paulo, Brazil) 1. Loving and Languaging in Higher Education: A Decolonial Horizon, Christopher Stroud (University of the Western Cape, South Africa, and Stockholm University, Sweden) and Zannie Bock (University of the Western Cape, South Africa) 2. Decolonizing Higher Education: Multilingualism, Linguistic Citizenship and Epistemic Justice, Christopher Stroud (University of the Western Cape, South Africa, and Stockholm University, Sweden) and Caroline Kerfoot (Stockholm University, Sweden) 3. Indigenous Texts, Rich Points and Pluriversal Sources of Knowledge: Siswana-sibomvana, Antjie Krog (University of the Western Cape, South Africa) 4. Affect, Performance and Language: Implications for an Embodied and Interventionist Pedagogy, Miki Flockemann (University of the Western Cape, South Africa) 5. Linguistic Citizenship as Decoloniality: Teaching Hip Hop Culture at a Historically Black University, Quentin Williams (University of the Western Cape, South Africa)6. Teaching Modern South African History in the Aftermath of the Marikana Massacre: A Multimodal Pedagogy for Critical Citizenship, Marijke du Toit (University of the Western Cape, South Africa) 7. Delinking from Colonial Language Ideologies: Creating Third Spaces in Teacher Education, Soraya Abdulatief (University of Cape Town, South Africa), Xolisa Guzula (University of Cape Town, South Africa) and Carolyn McKinney (University of Cape Town, South Africa) 8. When Linguists Become Artists: An Exercise in Boundaries, Borders and Vulnerabilities, Marcelyn Oostendorp (Stellenbosch University, South Africa), Lulu Duke (Stellenbosch University, South Africa), Simangele Mashazi (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) and Charné Pretorius (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) 9. Decolonising Linguistics: A Southern African Textbook Project, Zannie Bock (University of the Western Cape, South Africa) 10. Afterthoughts: Multilingual Citizenship, Humans, Environments and Histories, Duncan Brown (University of the Western Cape, South Africa) Index
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Integrating lucid theoretical exposition with a series of vivid first-hand accounts of university teaching, this book is a vital point of reference for anyone asking what decoloniality and linguistic citizenship might actually mean for their own practice in higher education.
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Uses a decolonial lens to explore how centring pedagogic approaches in higher education around multilingualism and diversity can enhance academic success and societal equality.
Uses a decolonial lens to explore how pedagogic approaches centring on multilingualism and diversity can enhance academic success and equality
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 and multilingualisms 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
9781350049086
Publisert
2021-06-17
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Vekt
526 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
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Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
248

Biographical note

Zannie Bock is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. She is also the Deputy Dean of Teaching and Learning in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the same university. Christopher Stroud is Senior Professor of Linguistics and Director for the Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. He is also Professor of Transnational Multilingualism in the Centre for Research on Bilingualism at the Stockholm University, Sweden.