Decoloniality, Language and Literacy
STUDIES IN KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION AND PARTICIPATION
Series Editors : Mary Jane Curry , University of Rochester, USA and Theresa Lillis , The Open University, UK
Questions about the relationships among language and other semiotic resources (such as image, film/video, sound) and knowledge production, participation and distribution are increasingly coming to the fore in the context of debates about globalisation, multilingualism and new technologies. Much of the existing work published on knowledge production has focused on formal academic/scientific knowledge; this knowledge is beginning to be produced and communicated via a much wider range of genres, modes and media including, for example, blogs, wikis and Twitter feeds, which have created new ways of producing and communicating knowledge, as well as opening up new ways of participating. Fast-moving shifts in these domains prompt the need for this series which aims to explore facets of knowledge production including: what is counted as knowledge, how it is recognised and rewarded, and who has access to producing, distributing and using knowledge(s). One of the key aims of the series is to include work by scholars located outside the centre, and to include work written in innovative styles and formats.
All books in this series are externally peer-reviewed.
Full details of all the books in this series and of all our other publications can be found on http://www.multilingual-matters.com, or by writing to Multilingual Matters, St Nicholas House, 3134 High Street, Bristol BS1 2AW, UK.
Editorial Board
Jannis Androutsopoulos, University of Hamburg, Germany
Karen Bennett, Universidade Nova, Portugal
Jan Blommaert, Tilburg University, the Netherlands
Rebecca Black, University of California, USA
Sally Burgess, Universidad de La Laguna, Spain
Paula Carlino, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Christine Casanave, Temple University, USA
Christiane Donohue, Dartmouth College, USA
Guillaume Gentil, Carleton University, Canada
Bruce Horner, University of Louisville, USA
Dawang Huang, University of Ningbo, China
Luisa Martn Rojo, Universidad Autonoma, Spain
Carolyn McKinney, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Franoise Salager-Meyer, Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela
Elana Shohamy, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Sue Starfield, University of New South Wales, Australia
Christine Tardy, Arizona State University, USA
Lucia Thesen, University of Cape Town, South Africa
STUDIES IN KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION AND PARTICIPATION: 3
Decoloniality, Language and Literacy
Conversations with Teacher Educators
Edited by
Carolyn McKinney and Pam Christie
MULTILINGUAL MATTERS
Bristol Jackson
DOI https://doi.org/10.21832/MCKINN9240
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
Names: McKinney, Carolyn, editor. | Christie, Pam, editor.
Title: Decoloniality, Language and Literacy: Conversations with Teacher Educators/Edited by Carolyn McKinney and Pam Christie.
Description: Bristol, UK; Blue Ridge Summit, PA: Multilingual Matters, 2022. | Series: Studies in Knowledge Production and Participation: 3 | Includes bibliographical references and index. | 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 Provided by publisher. Identifiers: LCCN 2021037268 (print) | LCCN 2021037269 (ebook) | ISBN 9781788929233 (paperback) | ISBN 9781788929240 (hardback) | ISBN 9781788929257 (pdf) | ISBN 9781788929264 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: EducationDeveloping countries. | Non-formal educationDeveloping countries. | Language and educationDeveloping countries. | LiteracyDeveloping countries. | TeachersTraining ofDeveloping countries. Classification: LCC LC2605 .D36 2022 (print) |
LCC LC2605 (ebook) | DDC 370.9724dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021037268
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021037269
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ISBN-13: 978-1-78892-924-0 (hbk)
ISBN-13: 978-1-78892-923-3 (pbk)
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Contents
Carolyn McKinney and Pam Christie
Harry Garuba
Xolisa Guzula
Pinky Makoe
Robyn Tyler
Kate Angier, Carolyn McKinney and Catherine Kell
Annemarie Hattingh
Rochelle Kapp
Soraya Abdulatief
Carolyn McKinney
Catherine Kell in conversation with Xolisa Guzula and Carolyn McKinney
Cloris Porto Torquato
Vanessa Andreotti and Sharon Stein
Natalia vila Reyes
We gratefully acknowledge funding received from the National Research Foundation (NRF), South Africa, to support this project.
This book went through a series of peer-review processes at proposal and full manuscript stages. We are extremely grateful to all the reviewers for the depth of their engagement with our work, and their insightful reviews. We also sincerely thank the series editors Theresa Lillis and M.J. Curry for their invaluable critical feedback and support of this project.
Soraya Abdulatief is a PhD candidate in Education at the University of Cape Town. She holds a Masters degree in English Literature from the University of the Western Cape. She has lectured in English Communication at a university of technology and worked as an online editor and technical writer. Sorayas PhD research is on teaching academic literacies practices to Postgraduate Certificate in Education students learning to be science teachers. Her other research interests include decolonial and multimodal theories, using technology in education, and debates around race, gender, language and literacy.
Vanessa Andreotti is a Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities and Global Change and Professor in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia. Drawing on different critiques of colonialism and human exceptionalism, her research examines the interface between historical, systemic and ongoing forms of violence, and the material and psychoanalytic dimensions of unsustainability within modernity. Vanessas pedagogical practice seeks to open up new possibilities for cognitive, affective, relational, economic and ecological global transformative justice, healing and well-being. She is one of the founding members of the Gesturing Decolonial Futures Collective (decolonialfutures.net).
