Translanguaging and Epistemological Decentring in Higher Education and Research

Heidi Bojsen, Petra Daryai-Hansen, Anne Holmen, Karen Risager

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781800410916
• Topic: Ciencias sociales
• Subtopic: Antropología cultural y social

Using data from multilingual settings in universities and adjacent learning contexts in East Asia, North Africa, Central and North America and Europe, this book provides examples of the heuristic value of translanguaging and epistemological decentring. Despite this and other theoretical and empirical work, and ever stronger calls for the inclusion of other languages, epistemologies and constructions of culture in higher education, decentring and translanguaging practices are often relegated to the margins or suppressed in research and education because of the organisational structures of education institutions and prevailing language norms, policies and ideologies. The authors draw on research on pluri- and multilingualism within education studies, as well as post- and decolonial theoretical contributions to the research on the role of language in education and knowledge production, to provide evidence that decentring cannot happen until learners have been given the tools to identify which sorts of centring dynamics and conditions are salient to their learning and (trans)languaging.

Table of contents

• Cover-Page
• Half-Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Contributors
• 1: Introduction: The Nexus of Translanguaging and Epistemological Decentring in Higher Education and Research
• 2: Translanguaging, Epistemological Decentring and Power: A Study of Students’ Perspectives and Learning
• 3: More Languages for More Students: Practice, Ideology and Management
• 4: Glimpses Into the ‘Language Galaxy’ of International Universities: International Students’ Multilingual and Translanguaging Experiences and Strategies at a Top Finnish University
• 5: Fostering Students’ Decentring and Multiperspectivity: A Cross-Discussion on Translanguaging as a Plurilingual Tool in Higher Education
• 6: Teaching the Conflicts in American Foreign Language Education
• 7: On Matrouzity: Translanguaging and Decentring Plurilingual Practices in Morocco
• 8: Foreign Language Learning ‘in the Wild’ and Epistemological Decentering
• 9: Strategies of Decentring in Translingual Research: Reflections on a Research Project
• 10: Student Testimonies: Translanguaging and Epistemological Decentring from a Student Perspective
• Appendix: Abstracts of Chapters 2-9. A Courtesy for Selective Readers
• Author Index
• Subject Index