Handbook on Promoting Social Justice in Education 2019
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-74078-2_46-1
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Challenging Social Injustice in Superdiverse Contexts Through Activist Languages Education

Abstract: In a current world of rapid change and immense global mobility, communities are experiencing unprecedented increases in population diversity that have dramatically heightened the challenge of ensuring social justice for linguistic minorities, including migrants, refugees, and people on the move, with implications for society as a whole. This chapter explores the rhetoric of related policies and practices and the ways in which they respond to the needs of superdiverse communities. The cases of the UK, Europe, a… Show more

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“…As a philosophy of education, social justice contests social, cultural, and economic inequalities and guarantees inclusive education for all (Goodwin & Proctor, 2019;Lamb, Hatoss, & O'Neill, 2019). Education thus constitutes a powerful tool of social change where teachers act as transformative intellectuals (Giroux, 2010) immersed in civic engagement (Freire, 1994) and action (Byram, 2008) to deconstruct and disrupt hegemonic systems.…”
Section: Conceptual Frameworkmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As a philosophy of education, social justice contests social, cultural, and economic inequalities and guarantees inclusive education for all (Goodwin & Proctor, 2019;Lamb, Hatoss, & O'Neill, 2019). Education thus constitutes a powerful tool of social change where teachers act as transformative intellectuals (Giroux, 2010) immersed in civic engagement (Freire, 1994) and action (Byram, 2008) to deconstruct and disrupt hegemonic systems.…”
Section: Conceptual Frameworkmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This link between the children's language learning that occurred in the NGO and their community engagement in the here and now is a pillar in intercultural citizenship education (Byram et al, 2017). Furthermore, from the perspective of the teacher educators and student teachers involved, this project enacted a social justice basis in language education (Byram and Wagner, 2018;Lamb et al, 2019) and contributed to the teacher educators' professional development and the student teachers' development of a situated social justice praxis (Porto, forthcoming b).…”
Section: Contextual Background To This Special Issuementioning
confidence: 99%