Transcultural Pedagogies for Multilingual Classrooms - (New Perspectives on Language and Education) by Rahat Zaidi & Umit Boz & Eve Moreau

About the Book

This book explores the ways in which transcultural pedagogies can support learning and literacies in critical, creative and socially just ways, highlighting research initiatives from across the globe. Chapters present innovative perspectives for language/literacy education focusing on Indigenous, plurilingual and digital literacies, among others.

Book Synopsis

This book explores the ways in which transcultural pedagogies can support learning and literacies in critical, creative and socially just ways, highlighting research initiatives from across the globe. Chapters present innovative perspectives for language/literacy education focusing on Indigenous, plurilingual and digital literacies, among others.

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If you are a teacher or a teacher educator looking for cutting edge research on transformative, culturally sustaining and decolonising pedagogies, this book is for you. Through fascinating examples of the transformative - and transgressive - power of transcultural and translingual pedagogies in a wide variety of contexts, the authors demonstrate the potential offered by linguistic and cultural diversity to foster transcultural awareness and competence, destabilize linguistic privilege and rethink classroom practice and teacher education in transcultural times.

Linguistic and cultural diversity are a global reality. The editors and authors of this volume make an important and original contribution to share knowledge about ways to improve education in diversity contexts. The contributions cover a wide range of topics: from commitment to revitalising the languages of autochthonous minorities, preserving the languages of immigrants to the use of new media and artistic encounters as teaching tools.

This inspirational volume documents how educators in diverse contexts around the world have orchestrated interactional spaces in their classrooms that enable minoritized students to mobilize their intellectual, linguistic, and cultural strengths to create knowledge, literature, and art. In chapter after chapter, we see students engaged in the collaborative generation of power and agency - empowerment pedagogy in action.

About the Author

Rahat Zaidi is a Research Professor at the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary, Canada. Her research expertise focuses on multilingual literacies that clarify intersectional understandings across sociophobia, diversity, immigration and pluralism. Her most recent research is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Umit Boz is an Associate Professor (Teaching) at the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary, Canada. His research interests include second language teaching and learning, bi/multilingual education, English for Academic Purposes and CLIL.

Eve Moreau is a doctoral student at the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary, Canada, and a school administrator with the Calgary Board of Education. Her research interests include intercultural education, bilingual education, language and culture, trauma informed teaching and global citizenship education.