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Author: Heidi Bojsen ,
Petra Daryai-Hansen ,
Anne Holmen ,
Karen Risager
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Imprint: Multilingual Matters
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.410kg
ISBN: 9781800410886
ISBN 10: 1800410883
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 13 January 2023
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
While multilingual scholars are dazzled by the creativity in communication at local contexts of classroom and society, they overlook the larger epistemological shifts promised by translingualism. This book is timely in addressing the resistant knowledge embodied and enacted in language diversity through speech communities we don't often hear in translingual scholarship. * Suresh Canagarajah, Pennsylvania State University, USA *
While multilingual scholars are dazzled by the creativity in communication at local contexts of classroom and society, they overlook the larger epistemological shifts promised by translingualism. This book is timely in addressing the resistant knowledge embodied and enacted in language diversity through speech communities we don’t often hear in translingual scholarship. * Suresh Canagarajah, Pennsylvania State University, USA * By tightening the nexus between translanguaging and epistemological decentring, the authors here confront us with how knowledges and languages are legitimized and taught in higher education. Blending students’ classroom experiences and analyses of educational policies in many national contexts, the book provides a multiplicity of perspectives that makes evident how language and knowledge are being manipulated in the struggle for power between people with competing interests. * Ofelia García, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA * This book launches a challenge for us to decolonise language and culture through epistemological decentering as linguistic practice. It proves that neither northern nor southern epistemologies can remain irremediably apart or imprisoned in their geographical cages. Both travel with and around us, in-between us, ready to trigger immense intercultural wealth, which eventually re-establishes life sustainability, once we let them engage in listening and talking to each other. * Manuela Guilherme, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal *
By tightening the nexus between translanguaging and epistemological decentring, the authors here confront us with how knowledges and languages are legitimized and taught in higher education. Blending students' classroom experiences and analyses of educational policies in many national contexts, the book provides a multiplicity of perspectives that makes evident how language and knowledge are being manipulated in the struggle for power between people with competing interests. * Ofelia Garcia, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA * While multilingual scholars are dazzled by the creativity in communication at local contexts of classroom and society, they overlook the larger epistemological shifts promised by translingualism. This book is timely in addressing the resistant knowledge embodied and enacted in language diversity through speech communities we don't often hear in translingual scholarship. * Suresh Canagarajah, Pennsylvania State University, USA * This book launches a challenge for us to decolonise language and culture through epistemological decentering as linguistic practice. It proves that neither northern nor southern epistemologies can remain irremediably apart or imprisoned in their geographical cages. Both travel with and around us, in-between us, ready to trigger immense intercultural wealth, which eventually re-establishes life sustainability, once we let them engage in listening and talking to each other. * Manuela Guilherme, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal *
Author Information
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).
