C2 Edited work
Visualising Language Students and Teachers as Multilinguals : Advancing Social Justice in Education (2025)

Kalaja, P., & Melo-Pfeifer, S. (Eds.). (2025). Visualising Language Students and Teachers as Multilinguals : Advancing Social Justice in Education. Multilingual Matters. Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 147. https://doi.org/10.21832/9781800412101

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Publication details

All authors or editors: Kalaja, Paula; Melo-Pfeifer, Sílvia

Parent publication editors: Kalaja Paula; Melo-Pfeifer Sílvia

ISBN: 978-1-80041-651-2

eISBN: 978-1-80041-210-1

Journal or series: Bilingual Education and Bilingualism

Publication year: 2025

Publication date: 31/08/2024

Number in series: 147

Number of pages in the book: 312

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Publication country: United Kingdom

Publication language: English

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781800412101

Publication open access: Openly available

Publication channel open access: Open Access channel

Publication is parallel published (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/97716

Abstract

This book fosters an awareness of multilingualism as lived or as subjectively experienced from the perspective of those involved in language education and teacher education. Responding to multilingual and visual turns, it widens the repertoire of methodologies dominating the field of language teacher education, from linguistic or verbal to visual. The chapters, written by practising language teachers and teacher educators, explore aspects of multilingualism accessed through visual means in a wide range of contexts. Using social justice as a transformative framework, they highlight the biases, inequalities and linguistic hierarchies within schools and teacher education, and promote respect for linguistic plurality and cultural diversity in these settings. They illustrate how visual methods can be used to reconstruct histories of individual multilingualism, identify present language ideologies and support teachers’ professional development by means of envisioning the future self in action. This book will be of interest to those involved in language education and language teacher education, including researchers, practising language teachers, student or trainee teachers and teacher educators.

Keywords: language; bilingualism; multilingualism; language teaching; publishing; writing; literacy

Free keywords: anthropology; bilingualism; bilingual education; creative writing studies; education; language acquisition; language education; language planning; language; identity; politics; literacy; multiliteracies; multilingualism; psycholinguistics; sociolinguistics; tourism studies; translation; interpreting; writing; publishing

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JUFO rating: 2

Preliminary JUFO rating: 2