This article, that starts from the theoretical review made within the development of a doctoral thesis, aims to analyze the contribution that epistemological decolonization can make to the necessary transformations in the Colombian educational system, taking as an example political or citizen education. For this, the most important concepts in the classical epistemological discussion are reviewed initially with the approaches of Karl Popper, Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend and the Critical Theory. Then, the main postulates of the decolonial theories and the southern epistemologies are presented, their central concepts, representative authors and contributions to the epistemological discussion to, subsequently, review the experiences and theoretical foundations of pedagogical currents that are part of this trend, addressing the principles of Buen Vivir and Vivir Bien, from which the proposal of citizen education in Colombia is analyzed critically. Finally, it is concluded that a process of epistemological decolonization, based on the principles of Buen Vivir, is necessary, not only for political education, but also for the education system in general, in the search for new forms of education, based on the respect for all forms of life, respect for others and towards nature.
{"title":"La descolonización epistemológica y la educación política en Colombia. Hacia una perspectiva ciudadana del buen vivir","authors":"Jarol Andrés Piedrahita Rodríguez","doi":"10.14516/fde.720","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14516/fde.720","url":null,"abstract":"This article, that starts from the theoretical review made within the development of a doctoral thesis, aims to analyze the contribution that epistemological decolonization can make to the necessary transformations in the Colombian educational system, taking as an example political or citizen education. For this, the most important concepts in the classical epistemological discussion are reviewed initially with the approaches of Karl Popper, Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend and the Critical Theory. Then, the main postulates of the decolonial theories and the southern epistemologies are presented, their central concepts, representative authors and contributions to the epistemological discussion to, subsequently, review the experiences and theoretical foundations of pedagogical currents that are part of this trend, addressing the principles of Buen Vivir and Vivir Bien, from which the proposal of citizen education in Colombia is analyzed critically. Finally, it is concluded that a process of epistemological decolonization, based on the principles of Buen Vivir, is necessary, not only for political education, but also for the education system in general, in the search for new forms of education, based on the respect for all forms of life, respect for others and towards nature.","PeriodicalId":43476,"journal":{"name":"Foro de Educacion","volume":"18 1","pages":"47-65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47924080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Se presentan los resultados de una investigacion centrada en generar una propuesta curricular autonoma con y para las escuelas de la comuna de San Juan de la Costa, territorio williche al sur de Chile. Las reflexiones concebidas en este documento refieren a procesos clave para repensar los fundamentos locales y un nuevo discurso educativo. Se conceptualizaron cuatro principios locales a partir de metodologias participativas considerando las singularidades del territorio, estos son: a) reconocer y reparar como base para la autonomia; b) conciencia colectiva para impugnar la fragmentacion; c) desafiar la interculturalidad oficial: cambios de procedimientos y emancipacion curricular y; d) abdicar del discurso del poder. En efecto, estos principios conformarian el punto de partida para elaborar las bases locales de una educacion propia, en tanto se preve en ello el inicio de cambios que van en la linea de reivindicaciones y reconocimiento de derechos de los pueblos indigenas.
{"title":"Principios educativos locales con miras a la autonomía: construcción de un nuevo discurso educativo en el territorio williche (Sur de Chile)","authors":"S. Cisterna","doi":"10.14516/fde.650","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14516/fde.650","url":null,"abstract":"Se presentan los resultados de una investigacion centrada en generar una propuesta curricular autonoma con y para las escuelas de la comuna de San Juan de la Costa, territorio williche al sur de Chile. Las reflexiones concebidas en este documento refieren a procesos clave para repensar los fundamentos locales y un nuevo discurso educativo. Se conceptualizaron cuatro principios locales a partir de metodologias participativas considerando las singularidades del territorio, estos son: a) reconocer y reparar como base para la autonomia; b) conciencia colectiva para impugnar la fragmentacion; c) desafiar la interculturalidad oficial: cambios de procedimientos y emancipacion curricular y; d) abdicar del discurso del poder. En efecto, estos principios conformarian el punto de partida para elaborar las bases locales de una educacion propia, en tanto se preve en ello el inicio de cambios que van en la linea de reivindicaciones y reconocimiento de derechos de los pueblos indigenas.","PeriodicalId":43476,"journal":{"name":"Foro de Educacion","volume":"18 1","pages":"27-45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46057232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
It is increasingly argued that European colonialism has left its mark not only in the political and economic structures of the current world system, but also in the fields of culture, science and education. Against this background, the demand for a comprehensive epistemic or epistemological decolonization is raised. This issue follows on from this demand to clarify to what extent the phenomena of cultural colonization and coloniality also affect the fields of pedagogy and educational science. In particular, the meaning of the demand for epistemic or epistemological decolonization in the field of education will be discussed. In the introduction to this volume, the main features of decolonial thinking are presented. This is a movement of critical thinking that starts from the history of Latin America in order to reconstruct, criticize and deconstruct the globally powerful connection between modernity and coloniality. After this short introduction, the individual contributions from this issue on decoloniality will be briefly presented. Finally, the differences and similarities of the individual articles are briefly referred to. In the end, the question is raised, whether decolonial education should distinguish itself more strongly within the discipline.
{"title":"Epistemological Decolonization and Education. International Perspectives","authors":"Phillip Dylan Thomas Knobloch","doi":"10.14516/fde.797","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14516/fde.797","url":null,"abstract":"It is increasingly argued that European colonialism has left its mark not only in the political and economic structures of the current world system, but also in the fields of culture, science and education. Against this background, the demand for a comprehensive epistemic or epistemological decolonization is raised. This issue follows on from this demand to clarify to what extent the phenomena of cultural colonization and coloniality also affect the fields of pedagogy and educational science. In particular, the meaning of the demand for epistemic or epistemological decolonization in the field of education will be discussed. In the introduction to this volume, the main features of decolonial thinking are presented. This is a movement of critical thinking that starts from the history of Latin America in order to reconstruct, criticize and deconstruct the globally powerful connection between modernity and coloniality. After this short introduction, the individual contributions from this issue on decoloniality will be briefly presented. Finally, the differences and similarities of the individual articles are briefly referred to. In the end, the question is raised, whether decolonial education should distinguish itself more strongly within the discipline.","PeriodicalId":43476,"journal":{"name":"Foro de Educacion","volume":"18 1","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45755397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This study examines CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) science education in two bilingual (Spanish/English) schools in Castilla-La Mancha (Spain), a region which has recently implemented «Bilingual or Plurilingual Projects» under the provisions of the new «Integral Plan of Foreign Language Teaching in Castilla-La Mancha». By taking a critical sociolinguistic ethnographic perspective, the article explores how CLIL is understood and accomplished in an actual science classroom through English as the medium of instruction. This empirical approach serves as the framework to reflect upon the pedagogical transformation of traditional core areas, such as science, and the ideologies circulating among science teachers regarding their own practice. By looking into interactional events in situated classroom practices, the analysis sheds light on three key issues: 1) the role of language(s) in the process of meaning-making negotiation; 2) the way content is organised, taught and acquired through English; and 3) how teachers and students construct both academic and linguistic knowledge. From a CLIL perspective, the study examines daily teaching and learning practices and how teachers struggle to appropriate this methodology to integrate content and language while facing multiple institutional, pedagogical, logistics and behavioural challenges in the science classroom. Data comprise CLIL science interactions in two 1st grade of compulsory secondary education (CSE) classrooms at two state-funded private bi/plurilingual schools in La Mancha City (pseudonym), as well as semi-structured interviews carried out with the science teachers involved in the bilingual programme. For this purpose, the CSE lens contributes to better understand how CLIL science education works by establishing links between language policies, teachers’ ideologies and situated practices in relation to wider social processes.
{"title":"Doing CLIL in the Science Classroom: a Critical Sociolinguistic Ethnography in La Mancha Secondary Schools","authors":"Alicia Fernández-Barrera","doi":"10.14516/FDE.712","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14516/FDE.712","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) science education in two bilingual (Spanish/English) schools in Castilla-La Mancha (Spain), a region which has recently implemented «Bilingual or Plurilingual Projects» under the provisions of the new «Integral Plan of Foreign Language Teaching in Castilla-La Mancha». By taking a critical sociolinguistic ethnographic perspective, the article explores how CLIL is understood and accomplished in an actual science classroom through English as the medium of instruction. This empirical approach serves as the framework to reflect upon the pedagogical transformation of traditional core areas, such as science, and the ideologies circulating among science teachers regarding their own practice. By looking into interactional events in situated classroom practices, the analysis sheds light on three key issues: 1) the role of language(s) in the process of meaning-making negotiation; 2) the way content is organised, taught and acquired through English; and 3) how teachers and students construct both academic and linguistic knowledge. From a CLIL perspective, the study examines daily teaching and learning practices and how teachers struggle to appropriate this methodology to integrate content and language while facing multiple institutional, pedagogical, logistics and behavioural challenges in the science classroom. Data comprise CLIL science interactions in two 1st grade of compulsory secondary education (CSE) classrooms at two state-funded private bi/plurilingual schools in La Mancha City (pseudonym), as well as semi-structured interviews carried out with the science teachers involved in the bilingual programme. For this purpose, the CSE lens contributes to better understand how CLIL science education works by establishing links between language policies, teachers’ ideologies and situated practices in relation to wider social processes.","PeriodicalId":43476,"journal":{"name":"Foro de Educacion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45101404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nuevas metodologías relacionadas con la corriente pedagógica del coaching están incrementando su presencia en los espacios educativos, dando pie a nuevas formas de concebir la identidad docente. El objetivo de este trabajo es averiguar, desde la teoría de la educación, el tipo de identidad docente que subyace bajo esta perspectiva, haciendo un estudio crítico-pedagógico de sus fundamentos e implicaciones. Concretamente, se analiza de qué manera cambia el rol docente, la relación educativa y la influencia que se ejerce en el estudiantado respecto a las pedagogías más tradicionales, a partir de una revisión de la literatura más relevante. La principal conclusión que cabe extraer es que el coaching educativo, a pesar de encontrar en su metodología influencia de pedagogías más clásicas, promueve un aumento de protagonismo del alumnado, quien, gracias al acompañamiento del docente, será conducido hacia su mejor versión. Para ello, nuevas formas de comunicación más horizontales favorecidas por el uso de preguntas y prácticas relacionadas con la educación emocional y la escucha, ocuparán un lugar central en dicho proceso.
{"title":"Coaching educativo: ¿Qué identidad docente nos revela esta nueva corriente?","authors":"A. Moya","doi":"10.14516/FDE.657","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14516/FDE.657","url":null,"abstract":"Nuevas metodologías relacionadas con la corriente pedagógica del coaching están incrementando su presencia en los espacios educativos, dando pie a nuevas formas de concebir la identidad docente. El objetivo de este trabajo es averiguar, desde la teoría de la educación, el tipo de identidad docente que subyace bajo esta perspectiva, haciendo un estudio crítico-pedagógico de sus fundamentos e implicaciones. Concretamente, se analiza de qué manera cambia el rol docente, la relación educativa y la influencia que se ejerce en el estudiantado respecto a las pedagogías más tradicionales, a partir de una revisión de la literatura más relevante. La principal conclusión que cabe extraer es que el coaching educativo, a pesar de encontrar en su metodología influencia de pedagogías más clásicas, promueve un aumento de protagonismo del alumnado, quien, gracias al acompañamiento del docente, será conducido hacia su mejor versión. Para ello, nuevas formas de comunicación más horizontales favorecidas por el uso de preguntas y prácticas relacionadas con la educación emocional y la escucha, ocuparán un lugar central en dicho proceso.","PeriodicalId":43476,"journal":{"name":"Foro de Educacion","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41701286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Este artículo describe y evalúa una experiencia de innovación educativa desarrollada en la etapa infantil en cinco colegios y en un centro específico para alumnado con necesidades específicas de apoyo educativo. La innovación se centra en un enfoque de aprendizaje basado en proyectos para indagar el patrimonio histórico-cultural de la ciudad de Córdoba. El marco teórico que sustenta esta innovación integra cuatro conceptos básicos: (1) La Educación Infantil como etapa de especial plasticidad educativa; (2) La Educación Patrimonial; (3) La Educación Intercultural y (4) El Aprendizaje Basado en Proyectos. Se selecciona el proyecto «La Mezquita» para evaluar el nivel de cumplimiento de los objetivos establecidos, los cuales se relacionan con el análisis del potencial educativo de la ciudad de Córdoba, con la identificación de las competencias que adquieren los niños y niñas implicados y con las fortalezas y debilidades de esta experiencia. Se trata de un estudio exploratorio y transversal que se realiza a través de un estudio de caso. Se utilizan diversos instrumentos y técnicas: Análisis documental, entrevistas y documentación pedagógica. Los hallazgos más relevantes son: (1) Descubrimiento del potencial de la ciudad como contexto educativo para el desarrollo de la infancia y del alumnado con necesidades específicas de apoyo educativo; (2) Desarrollo de la competencia cívica y de respeto a las diferencias; (3) La transferencia y continuidad que propicia la Educación Patrimonial como espacio educativo en el que intervienen tanto la familia como la escuela.
{"title":"La ciudad como contexto educativo: Desarrollo de la competencia cívica en las aulas infantiles y en el alumnado con necesidades de apoyo educativo","authors":"Gloria Latorre Madueño, Rosario Mérida Serrano","doi":"10.14516/FDE.649","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14516/FDE.649","url":null,"abstract":"Este artículo describe y evalúa una experiencia de innovación educativa desarrollada en la etapa infantil en cinco colegios y en un centro específico para alumnado con necesidades específicas de apoyo educativo. La innovación se centra en un enfoque de aprendizaje basado en proyectos para indagar el patrimonio histórico-cultural de la ciudad de Córdoba. El marco teórico que sustenta esta innovación integra cuatro conceptos básicos: (1) La Educación Infantil como etapa de especial plasticidad educativa; (2) La Educación Patrimonial; (3) La Educación Intercultural y (4) El Aprendizaje Basado en Proyectos. Se selecciona el proyecto «La Mezquita» para evaluar el nivel de cumplimiento de los objetivos establecidos, los cuales se relacionan con el análisis del potencial educativo de la ciudad de Córdoba, con la identificación de las competencias que adquieren los niños y niñas implicados y con las fortalezas y debilidades de esta experiencia. Se trata de un estudio exploratorio y transversal que se realiza a través de un estudio de caso. Se utilizan diversos instrumentos y técnicas: Análisis documental, entrevistas y documentación pedagógica. Los hallazgos más relevantes son: (1) Descubrimiento del potencial de la ciudad como contexto educativo para el desarrollo de la infancia y del alumnado con necesidades específicas de apoyo educativo; (2) Desarrollo de la competencia cívica y de respeto a las diferencias; (3) La transferencia y continuidad que propicia la Educación Patrimonial como espacio educativo en el que intervienen tanto la familia como la escuela. ","PeriodicalId":43476,"journal":{"name":"Foro de Educacion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45112701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article examines adolescent and late adolescent discourses on bilingualism, bilingual education and the role of English and other additional languages in the current out-of-school lives and future trajectories of Spanish students enrolled in bilingual education programs. The data is part of a larger critical sociolinguistic ethnographic project on the implementation of bilingual education programs in secondary education (organized as English-Spanish CLIL) in Castilla-La Mancha, a region in South-Central Spain. Discourses were mainly elicited through a series of workshop-type and group discussion activities held in classrooms from two semi-private and two public schools, as well as an additional focus group conducted with university students. In total, 12 group events, involving approximately 300 students, were organized and documented through video-recordings, audio-recordings, photographs and fieldnotes. Students’ language ideologies around bilingualism are examined through an inductive qualitative / grounded theory approach. Three themes are identified: (a) the definition of bilingualism and bilingual competence, (b) the place of English (and other additional languages) in students’ current lives and social experiences and; (c) the role assigned to English in future employment and mobility opportunities. These discourses are discussed in relation to recent critical sociolinguistic work on the interconnection between language, multilingualism and neoliberalism. The paper closes with some methodological thoughts regarding the place of linguistic ethnography in the analysis of students’ collective discourses.
{"title":"Bilingual Beyond School: Students’ Language Ideologies in Bilingual Programs in South-Central Spain","authors":"David Poveda","doi":"10.14516/FDE.700","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14516/FDE.700","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines adolescent and late adolescent discourses on bilingualism, bilingual education and the role of English and other additional languages in the current out-of-school lives and future trajectories of Spanish students enrolled in bilingual education programs. The data is part of a larger critical sociolinguistic ethnographic project on the implementation of bilingual education programs in secondary education (organized as English-Spanish CLIL) in Castilla-La Mancha, a region in South-Central Spain. Discourses were mainly elicited through a series of workshop-type and group discussion activities held in classrooms from two semi-private and two public schools, as well as an additional focus group conducted with university students. In total, 12 group events, involving approximately 300 students, were organized and documented through video-recordings, audio-recordings, photographs and fieldnotes. Students’ language ideologies around bilingualism are examined through an inductive qualitative / grounded theory approach. Three themes are identified: (a) the definition of bilingualism and bilingual competence, (b) the place of English (and other additional languages) in students’ current lives and social experiences and; (c) the role assigned to English in future employment and mobility opportunities. These discourses are discussed in relation to recent critical sociolinguistic work on the interconnection between language, multilingualism and neoliberalism. The paper closes with some methodological thoughts regarding the place of linguistic ethnography in the analysis of students’ collective discourses.","PeriodicalId":43476,"journal":{"name":"Foro de Educacion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49376339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Enmarcado en la investigación en co-labor (Ballena & Unamuno, 2017b; Leiva, 2011; Lassiter, 2005; Rappaport, 2008), este estudio se centra en el análisis de los registros etnográficos que llevamos a cabo en el marco de la elaboración del libro escolar «N’ku Ifweln’uhu» (Mi madre me enseñó) destinado a niños wichi de nivel inicial y primario. En un inicio, me propongo problematizar la investigación en contexto indígena en Argentina, especialmente en relación con el lugar de los indígenas en los procesos de investigación, incluyendo aspectos clave como la autoría y los beneficios directos e indirectos de dichos procesos. Luego, presentaré el contexto en donde trabajamos para poder explicar el recorrido hecho en la producción del citado material, centrándome principalmente en el uso de la etnografía para recuperar los saberes tradicionales de las madres wichi con el fin de hacerlos dialogar con los saberes escolares occidentales. El resultado del análisis de estos registros me permitirá, finalmente, proponer algunas conclusiones sobre la etnografía sociolingüística como espacio y práctica de producción de conocimientos colectivos en el campo de la educación bilingüe e intercultural.
{"title":"N’ku Ifweln’uhu: etnografía en co-labor y la producción colectiva de la educación bilingüe intercultural desde la lengua y la cultura wichi (Chaco, Argentina)","authors":"V. Unamuno","doi":"10.14516/FDE.701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14516/FDE.701","url":null,"abstract":"Enmarcado en la investigación en co-labor (Ballena & Unamuno, 2017b; Leiva, 2011; Lassiter, 2005; Rappaport, 2008), este estudio se centra en el análisis de los registros etnográficos que llevamos a cabo en el marco de la elaboración del libro escolar «N’ku Ifweln’uhu» (Mi madre me enseñó) destinado a niños wichi de nivel inicial y primario. En un inicio, me propongo problematizar la investigación en contexto indígena en Argentina, especialmente en relación con el lugar de los indígenas en los procesos de investigación, incluyendo aspectos clave como la autoría y los beneficios directos e indirectos de dichos procesos. Luego, presentaré el contexto en donde trabajamos para poder explicar el recorrido hecho en la producción del citado material, centrándome principalmente en el uso de la etnografía para recuperar los saberes tradicionales de las madres wichi con el fin de hacerlos dialogar con los saberes escolares occidentales. El resultado del análisis de estos registros me permitirá, finalmente, proponer algunas conclusiones sobre la etnografía sociolingüística como espacio y práctica de producción de conocimientos colectivos en el campo de la educación bilingüe e intercultural.","PeriodicalId":43476,"journal":{"name":"Foro de Educacion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49395487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article examines a «giving back to the field» experience in a state-funded faith school in Catalonia (Spain), where we conducted ethnographic fieldwork on the introduction of English as a vehicular language in compulsory schooling. After two years of observing pre-school, primary and secondary education classes, attending meetings, and interviewing teaching staff and administrators, we were asked by the primary school coordinator to hold a training session in June 2017 as university «experts» acquainted with the institutional context. The school had been teaching extra hours of a subject taught in English named Science , but teachers were only partially satisfied with the results. In addition, an educational consultant that the school had recently hired had suggested that these Science classes needed to be reformulated. In this paper, we shall trace the preparatory email messages that we exchanged with the primary school coordinator, as well as the discursive development of the two-hour face-to-face session, which was attended by over fifteen teachers and which we audio recorded. We discursively dissect the ways in which a shared understanding of the problem and of possible solutions was constructed. We also analyse how expertise is enacted in interaction and contributes to the meeting outcomes. We suggest that our approach was in line with collaborative, reciprocal and transformative research paradigms drawing on the close relations with some of the participants and the in-depth knowledge of the school culture that had developed out of our two-year ethnographic engagement with the field.
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Language socialization research in bilingual and multilingual settings, particularly across EFL (English as a Foreign Language) and ESL (English as a Second Language) contexts, has addressed the processes by which novices are «apprenticed» or mentored into the linguistic and nonlinguistic ideologies, values, practices, and stances (affective, epistemic, and other) of sociocultural groups to ultimately become «competent members» of these learning communities. However, one of the unexplored bilingual education contexts from a language socialization perspective refers to «Content and Language Integrated Learning» or CLIL, defined as «inclusive of a wide range of educational practices provided that these practices are conducted through the medium of an additional language and both language and the subject have a joint role». Taking these premises as a point of departure, this article discusses the language socialization processes CLIL teachers undergo to become competent members of the bilingual school communities (BSC) that have proliferated extensively in Castilla-La Mancha (CLM), Spain, in the last decade. Drawing on ethnographic data collected in four different bilingual state-funded and state-funded private schools in this region, the article analyzes the case of San Marcos’ teachers’ narratives of becoming and doing CLIL as «meta-agentive» discursive sites that display the ideologies and practices of professional personhood at stake in CLIL programs. The article further advances the latest ethnographic CLIL agenda interested in revealing the social processes involved in the organization of exclusionary practices in the era of the «bilingual» craze and pressure across different Spanish autonomous communities
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