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Educational Agency and Activism in Linguistic Landscape Studies

by Durk Gorter (Volume editor) Edina Krompák (Volume editor)
©2024 Edited Collection 356 Pages
Open Access

Summary

Who is involved and why in the linguistic landscapes in educational contexts? How are agency and activism reflected in educationscapes? These questions and more are addressed in the various contributions in this volume, thus expanding the boundaries of educationscapes through enquiries that focus on educational agency and activism. In particular, the collection sheds light on linguistic, semiotic and spatial agency and activism in different educational contexts around the world. By focusing on agency as social practice and activism as act to change, the studies broaden our understanding of the actors, and how they mobilize their linguistic and semiotic resources to shape the educationscape. The volume advances the study of linguistic landscapes in educational contexts and offers a critical approach to reflect on inequality, power and decolonialization of languages in educational spaces, as well as the professional development of future teachers.

Table Of Contents

  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • About the author
  • About the book
  • This eBook can be cited
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contributors
  • Introduction: Educational Agency and Activism in Public Spaces
  • The Use of Linguistic Landscape in the Professional Development of Language Teachers
  • Linguistic Landscapes in English Language Classrooms: Teachers’ Practices and Reflections
  • Linguistic Landscape as a Pedagogical Tool in Literacy Development in Primary Schools in Lira City, Uganda
  • Affecting Multiliteracies in the Linguistic Landscape
  • Developing Intercultural Competence through a Linguistic Landscapes Project: Linguistic Social Justice in Multicultural Communities
  • Reflecting on Linguistic Landscapes during Decolonising Times: A Case from Canadian Higher Education
  • Sign Ensembles in the Schoolscape
  • Linguistics or Logistics? Actively Changing a Harmful Narrative through Collaborative Autoethnography on TikTok
  • Semiotic Agency, Alternative Multilingualisms and Health Educationscapes in a Poster Campaign to Restore Trust in a Hospital Medical Emergency Department
  • Learning to Reconcile: Entextualisation of a Multilingual Municipality Sign in Educationscapes of Sápmi
  • Afterword: Linguistic Landscapes, Activism and Service Learning

Acknowledgements

First and foremost, we would like to express our gratitude to the authors who advanced the discourse on linguistic landscape and educational spaces with their valuable contributions and their constructive peer reviews of the chapters by their author colleagues. We are grateful to Peter Lang publishers, in particular to Michael Rücker for his excellent and ongoing support during the whole publication process. Further, we appreciate the support of Shanara Wallace and Corinne Seals in the translation of the Māori language and the interpretation of the Māori symbols. Last but not least, we would like to thank Alexa Barnby for her precise and thoughtful copy editing of the entire volume, and Patricia Schubiger-Grenacher for her valuable support in formatting the manuscript. This publication was financially supported by the University of Teacher Education Lucerne, Switzerland.

Details

Pages
356
Publication Year
2024
ISBN (PDF)
9783631901878
ISBN (ePUB)
9783631901885
ISBN (Hardcover)
9783631901861
DOI
10.3726/b22161
Open Access
CC-BY
Language
English
Publication date
2024 (October)
Keywords
Linguistic landscape language and space linguistic and semiotic educationscapes educational agency and activism
Published
Berlin, Bruxelles, Chennai, Lausanne, New York, Oxford, 2024. 356 pp., 74 fig. col., 2 fig. b/w, 1 table.
Product Safety
Peter Lang Group AG

Biographical notes

Durk Gorter (Volume editor) Edina Krompák (Volume editor)

Durk Gorter, a distinguished scholar in the field of multilingualism, held the position of Ikerbasque research professor at University of the Basque Country, conducting research on multilingual education, minority languages, and linguistic landscapes. Edina Krompák is Head of the Institute of Language Learning and Teaching and Educational Linguistics at the University of Teacher Education Lucerne. Her research and teaching delve into multidisciplinary topics from education science, educational linguistics and linguistic ethnography.

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