Overview
- Brings together concepts from literacy, bi/multilingual, and linguistics research
- Addresses the collective impact of English hegemony, white supremacy, and neoliberalism on multilingual people in school systems
- Provides four testimonios of multilingual people at various stages of development adolescent, young adult, and adult)
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This book names and confounds the mono-mainstream assumption that invisibly frames much research, the ideologies that normalize monolingualism, monoculturalism, monoliteracy, mononationalism, and/or monomodal ways of knowing. In its place, the authors propose multi- and trans- lenses of these phenomena steeped in a raciolinguistic perspective on Bourdieu’s reflexive sociology to move toward a more accurate, multidimensional view of racialized peoples’ literacy and language practices. To achieve this, they first engage in a comprehensive review of literacies, languaging, and a critical sociocultural framework. Then, the distinct testimonios of four women underscore this framework in practice, followed by action steps for research, policy, and pedagogy. This book will be of particular interest to literacy and language education researchers.
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Reviews
“This book represents an original contribution that will help bridge the dichotomy between research and practice in two interrelated fields, literacy and applied linguistics. As one of the few of its kind, the book will be particularly relevant to emerging and new scholars.” (Erica Saldivar Garcia, New York University, USA)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Alexandra (Ale) Babino is Assistant Professor and Director of Bilingual/ESL Education at Texas A&M University – Commerce, USA. She explores how and why bilinguals become biliterate and bicultural from a systems’ perspective in dual language and teacher preparation programs.
Mary Amanda (Mandy) Stewart is Associate Professor of Literacy at Texas Woman's University, USA. Her research promotes the biliteracy of adolescent emergent bilinguals, focusing on translingual and critical pedagogies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Radicalizing Literacies and Languaging
Book Subtitle: A Framework toward Dismantling the Mono-Mainstream Assumption
Authors: Alexandra Babino, Mary Amanda Stewart
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56138-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56137-6Published: 27 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56140-6Published: 27 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-56138-3Published: 26 October 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 272
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Multilingualism, Literacy, Sociology of Culture, Language Education, Bilingualism