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Pluriversalizing (Higher) Education: meanings, contexts and possibilities
de Saint-Georges, Ingrid
2017Colloque IMAGER. Métissages linguistiques et culturels émergents: vers quelle médiations
 

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Keywords :
Higher Education; Internationalization; Multilingualism; mediation
Abstract :
[en] This presentation explores hybridity, multilingualism and mediation in (Higher) Education, especially when (university) classrooms become more visibly diverse and multilingual. It begins by identifying first which professional dilemmas and opportunities the diversifying classroom crates for both teachers and students. How does increasing diversity affect for example language policy, assessment, expression, and curriculum development? The paper next suggests that taking an interdisciplinary outlook might shed interesting light on these questions. In particular, insights from socioliguistics, multilingual education, social semiotics and post-colonial studies might lead to renewed thinking about traditional concepts of miedations and re-mediations. Finally, drawing on both succesful and problematic cases, the discussion explores the meanings, challenges and opportunities that arise when adopting what researchers from the South have called a pluriversal perspective, and when one substitutes a multilingual ethos and ethics of care for the more traditional monolingual, eurocentric orientation most prevalent in Western Universities.
Disciplines :
Education & instruction
Author, co-author :
de Saint-Georges, Ingrid ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Education, Culture, Cognition and Society (ECCS)
External co-authors :
no
Language :
English
Title :
Pluriversalizing (Higher) Education: meanings, contexts and possibilities
Alternative titles :
[fr] Pluriversaliser l'enseignement (supérieur): définitions, contextes et perspectives
Publication date :
20 October 2017
Event name :
Colloque IMAGER. Métissages linguistiques et culturels émergents: vers quelle médiations
Event organizer :
UPEC
Event place :
Paris-Créteil, France
Event date :
from 19-10-2017 to 21-10-2017
By request :
Yes
Audience :
International
Focus Area :
Multilingualism and Intercultural Studies
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