Decoloniality, Language and Literacy - Conversations with Teacher Educators

Through a range of unconventional genres, representations of data, and dialogic, reflective narratives alongside more traditional academic genres, this book engages with contexts of decoloniality and border thinking in the Global South. It captures the learning that takes place beyond the borders of disciplines and formal classroom spaces.

About the author

Carolyn McKinney is Associate Professor of Language Education in the School of Education, University of Cape Town, South Africa. She is the author of Language and Power in Post-Colonial Schooling: Ideologies in Practice (2017, Routledge).
Pam Christie is Emeritus Professor of Education, University of Cape Town, South Africa and Honorary Professor, The University of Queensland, Australia. She is the author of Decolonising Schooling in South Africa: the impossible dream? (2020, Routledge).

Summary

Through a range of unconventional genres, representations of data, and dialogic, reflective narratives alongside more traditional academic genres, this book engages with contexts of decoloniality and border thinking in the Global South. It captures the learning that takes place beyond the borders of disciplines and formal classroom spaces.

Product details

• Assisted by: Pam Christie (Editor), Christie Pam (Editor), Carolyn McKinney (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781788929240
• ISBN: 978-1-78892-924-0
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 501 g
• Series: Studies in Knowledge Production and Participation
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, EDUCATION / Professional Development, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Imperialism, Colonialism & imperialism, Republic of South Africa, teacher training, Colonialism and imperialism, EDUCATION / Teacher Training & Certification