Multiculturalism, Multilingualism and the Self
Multiculturalism, Multilingualism and the Self

Author: Danuta Gabryś-Barker

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-05-11

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 3319568922

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This book offers several insights into cross-cultural and multilingual learning, drawing upon recent research within two main areas: Language Studies and Multilingual Language Learning/Teaching. It places particular emphasis on the Polish learning environment and Poles abroad. Today’s world is an increasingly complex network of cross-cultural and multilingual influences, forcing us to redefine our Selves to include a much broader perspective than ever before. The first part of the book explores attitudes toward multiculturalism in British political speeches, joking behaviour in multicultural working settings, culture-dependent aspects of taboos and swearing, and expressive language of the imprisoned, adding a diachronic perspective by means of a linguistic study of The Canterbury Tales. In turn, the studies in the second part focus on visible shifts in contemporary multilingualism research, learners’ attitudes towards multiple languages they acquire, teachers’ perspectives on the changing requirements related to multiculturalism, and immigrant brokers’ professional experience in the UK.

Multiculturalism, Multilingualism and the Self: Literature and Culture Studies
Multiculturalism, Multilingualism and the Self: Literature and Culture Studies

Author: Jacek Mydla

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-07-31

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 331961049X

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This edited collection explores the conjunction of multiculturalism and the self in literature and culture studies, and brings together essays by prominent researchers interested in literature and culture whose critical perspectives inform discussions of specific examples of multicultural contexts in which individuals and communities strive to maintain their identities. The book is divided into two major parts, the first of which comprises literary representations of multiculturalism and discussions of its impasses and impacts in fictional circumstances. In turn, the second part primarily focuses on culture at large and real-life consequences. Taken together, the two complementary parts offer an illuminating and well-rounded overview of representations of multiculturalism in literature and contemporary culture from a variety of critical perspectives.

Language Crossings
Language Crossings

Author: Karen Ogulnick

Publisher: Teachers College Press

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9780807739983

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This vivid collection explores the fascinating connections between language use, language learning, and one's cultural identity. The essays, many of them by well-known writers, represent a diversity of cultures, ages, and nationalities, making the wide range of viewpoints they present both entertaining and instructional. In a time when issues of cultural identity are constantly explored and hotly debated, this volume illuminates the dynamic interaction between the personal, the political, and the theoretical. It is an essential read in a multicultural world.

Handbook of Multilingualism and Multiculturalism
Handbook of Multilingualism and Multiculturalism

Author: Geneviève Zarate

Publisher: Archives contemporaines

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 431

ISBN-13: 2813000396

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Built around the concept of linguistic and cultural plurality, this book defines language as an instrument of action and symbolic power. Plurality is conceived here as : a complex array of voices, perspectives and approaches that seeks to preserve the complexity of the multilingual and multicultural enterprise, including language learning and teaching ; a coherent system of relationships among various languages, research traditions and research sites that informs qualitative methods of inquiry into multilingualism and its uses in everyday life ; a view of language as structured sociohistorical object, observable from several simultaneous spatiotemporal standpoints, such as that of daily interactions or that which sustains the symbolic power of institutions. This book is addressed to teacher trainers, young researchers, decision makers, teachers concerned with the role of languages in the evolution of societies and educational systems. It aims to elicit discussion by articulating practices, field observations and analyses based on a multidisciplinary conceptual framework.

Language in Multicultural Education
Language in Multicultural Education

Author: Farideh Salili

Publisher: IAP

Published: 2005-03-01

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 1607525038

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Many books on multicultural education focus on a country and provide indepth discussion of issues pertinent to that country at the time. Alternately, understanding of multicultural education is sought through comparison between a society of special interest and a reference society, often the United States. An interesting recent example is Constructing Multicultural Education in a Diverse Society by Ilghiz Sinagatullin (2003), drawing on the author’s knowledge of Russia and more particularly the Republic of Bashkortostan, itself an ethnically and culturally diverse part of Russia. The approach taken in this volume is to focus on an aspect of diversity, and look at its ramifications across the world. This provides an understanding of the nature of multicultural education itself, as well as insights into local issues through the experience of other places.

Multiculturalism, Identity and Difference
Multiculturalism, Identity and Difference

Author: Elke Murdock

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-10-24

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 1137596791

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Multicultural societies are a phenomenon that can be increasingly observed worldwide. This book focuses on the question of how individuals living within a multicultural society experience the meeting of cultures. Murdock combines both a thorough review of the theoretical body of research concerning multiculturalism and related concepts such as globalization, acculturation and biculturalism with specific empirical research evidence, providing new insights into factors which shape our openness towards a plurally composed society. Multiculturalism, Identity and Difference contains original research conducted within the ‘natural laboratory’ that multilingual, multicultural Luxembourg provides. This is a country where the foreign population makes up nearly half of the total population. In the era of globalization, culture contact is a daily occurrence and this book makes a contribution to the questions of if and how culture contact can be experienced as an opportunity rather than a threat by individuals.

Multiculturalism and Multilingualism in Education
Multiculturalism and Multilingualism in Education

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2024-09-05

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9004709851

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Despite the superdiversity of an increasingly multicultural and multilingual world, policy and practice in education continues to deal with issues of inclusion and diversity in language education in rather tangential and peripheral ways. To address critical issues in multicultural and multilingual education, with implications for curriculum, teacher preparation and pedagogical practice, this volume brings together international perspectives on research, policy and pedagogical practice that help the global community gain new insights into ground-breaking work that addresses current questions, challenges and complexities in an education world of superdiversity.

The Multilingual Self
The Multilingual Self

Author: Natasha Lvovich

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 0805823204

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For a wide audience of students and scholars of second-language learning and cultural identity, this book relates the author's stories about how languages have integrated her being, defined and formed her sense of self.

Multilingualism and Multiculturalism
Multilingualism and Multiculturalism

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2024-09-19

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9004702318

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This edited volume emphasizes the critical role of macro, meso and micro factors in development of multilingual and multicultural environment for learning and teaching. The collection advocates for inclusive education, safe spaces for both teachers and students, teachers and students’ agency, educators’ reflection, and continuous professional development. It promotes the idea of multilingualism as a learning resource by overcoming a monolingual bias and language ideologies and by taking learners’ individual differences, social, economic and political factors into consideration. The originality of this collection is in its diversity spanning linguistic, sociocultural, and pedagogical dimensions.