Topics: Education, Language ideologies, Linguicism, Critical Pedagogy
Title : Language, Culture and Perceptions of our worlds: Towards an awareness of being more human(e).
Participants: Kate Alice Garnett,
Publish Date: 1/20/2025
Homepage : http://www.dreport.org
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Conversation Topics:
• Key words: linguicism, critical language awareness, Humane education and critical pedagogy
• What is the role of language in planetary justice?
• What is the relationship between language and culture?
• How does language frame culture?
• What is our understanding of culture?
• How do we define language?
• What is the relationship between language and the perception of the world?
• How does language shape the way we recall information?
• Do multi-lingual people have access to different worldviews?
• How many languages have we tried to learn?
• Do we enter a different cultural domain when we learn a different language?
• How does language serve as library?
• Does language serve as a carrier to different perspectives of how the world operates?
• How does the school space become the place to enforce dominant language ideologies?
• How do language instruction programs either misunderstand or choose not to understand the crucial relationship between language use and culture?
• How does language supremacy express itself among well intention educators?
• What is the relationship between global economic needs and mono-lingual instruction programs?
• What is critical language awareness?
• How do educators examine and reflect on the purpose in reproducing English to the detriment of other languages?
• How does studying language help us understand society in general?
• What tools can educators use to improve their practice by becoming more critically aware of the politics of language and reveal the intersection of power oppression and culture?
• How do we use a self-reflection journal as tool to examine language use and teaching practices?
• How do we make language a tool of equal empowerment?
• Language is “big;”- a dense and powerful element of our humanity.
• What is the history of elimination of languages through a preference system that converts a few languages into dominant languages?
• How to you minoritize communities through purposefully severing people from their languages?
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