Reimagining Dialogue on Identity, Language and Power

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· New Perspectives on Language and Education Book 117 · Channel View Publications
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In this book dialogue is used as a research, knowledge-sharing and community-building tool in which participants engage with each other in reflecting upon the perspectives of self and others: challenging, complementing and contradicting each other as critical peers. The book aims to be an enactment of sociological reimagination, as a way to reimagine public conversations that inspire criticality, innovation and multimodality around the intersection of identity (self), language (mediating mechanism) and power (sociocultural domain). Each chapter illustrates the use of dialogue as a participatory research tool as a way in which the sharing of knowledge and the growth of understanding occurs through meaning- and strategy-making processes. Together they present dialogue as an integrative model of self-inquiry and social activism and provide a valuable standpoint to understand the participatory nature of our very effort to question and investigate our sense of self in the world.

About the author

Ching-Ching Lin’s career spans more than 20 years of experience as a high school social studies and ESL teacher, college ESL professor, and TESOL and Bilingual Education instructor. She is currently a teacher educator and curriculum developer. She is the co-editor and a contributing author of the following two edited volumes: Inclusion, Diversity, and Intercultural Dialogue in Young People's Philosophical Inquiry (Brill Publishers, 2018) and Internationalization in Action: Leveraging Diversity and Inclusion in Globalized Classrooms (Peter Lang Publishing, 2020).

Clara Vaz Bauler is an Associate Professor of TESOL/Bilingual Education at Adelphi University, NY, USA. She is a sociolinguist and critical discourse analyst who is interested in unveiling unjust and often hidden educational practices that propagate language shaming and discrimination. She investigates language used in news media, social media and classrooms, inquiring on the contexts, purposes and consequences of using certain terms and enacting specific policing practices associated with languaging and migration flows.

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