A1 Journal article (refereed)
Building participatory video projects for multilingual schoolscapes (2024)

Szabó, T. P., & Laihonen, P. (2024). Building participatory video projects for multilingual schoolscapes. International Journal of Multilingualism, Early online. https://doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2024.2312890

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All authors or editors: Szabó, Tamás Péter; Laihonen, Petteri

Journal or series: International Journal of Multilingualism

ISSN: 1479-0718

eISSN: 1747-7530

Publication year: 2024

Publication date: 11/02/2024

Volume: Early online

Publisher: Routledge

Publication country: United Kingdom

Publication language: English

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2024.2312890

Publication open access: Openly available

Publication channel open access: Partially open access channel

Publication is parallel published (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/93645

Abstract

Educational actions that establish connections between language, culture, and power construct ideologies of languages and their speakers. The study of linguistic landscapes in education (i.e. schoolscapes) offers a lens to analyse the material manifestation of such ideologies. As a venture in participatory research, this paper investigates how young learners construct and represent their schoolscapes while documenting and interpreting them in video projects. We bring data from projects carried out with the Moldavian Csángó in Romania as well as Finnish and Swedish speaking Finns in Finland. In both cases, young people learning in multilingual educational contexts were engaged in video projects. In this way, the authors have introduced participants’ self-recorded videos to their research practice to gain materials which are less influenced by researchers. We present examples of traditional, i.e. one-angle-at-a-time and 360° videography projects and discuss their suitability for collaborative projects that investigate multilingual practices, including the use of minoritised languages. The qualitative analysis of grassroots literacy and oral interaction in the videos indicates that participatory projects offer considerable advances to schoolscape research in collaboratively studying the moment-to-moment nature of language practices and the related language ideologies in and across multilingual spaces.

Keywords: multilingualism; participatory research; minority languages; school environment

Free keywords: participatory research; linguistic landscape; schoolscape; multilingualism; minoritised languages; videography

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