Thinking and doing literacies and languages otherwise: Texts, bodies, and arts in language education

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Inspired by the conference theme of breaking boundaries for language education, this talk raises questions and provocations regarding how literacies and languages can be thought and taught otherwise. I approach these inquiries from both theoretical and practical perspectives. Recently, posthumanist and new materialist theories have entered the fields of literacy and language education, radically shaking how literacies and languages are understood. These theories move beyond human-centered understandings, emphasizing literacies and languages as relational, embodied, and material processes (Toohey et al., 2020). While embodiment and materiality have been addressed in other theories, posthumanist and new materialist theories take a step further by emphasizing the entanglement of bodyminded humans with materials in the doing of literacies and languages, and researchers have identified this as a paradigm shift (Kuby, 2017).

In this talk, I trace the movements of this ongoing paradigm shift, from sociocultural and multimodal theories towards posthumanist and new materialist theories. Against this theoretical scene, there are several pedagogical implications for literacy and language education. These theoretical approaches to pedagogy encourage us to re-think what counts as literacies and languages in education and how we teach literacies and languages. To illustrate how this might be enacted in educational practice, I offer examples from my research where I have explored boundary-breaking practices involving texts, bodies, and art forms in doing literacies and languages otherwise.
Period22 maj 2024
EvenemangstitelExploring Language Education: Breaking Boundaries for Language Education
Typ av evenemangKonferens
PlatsVaasa, FinlandVisa på karta
OmfattningInternationell