Tupas, R;
(2023)
The Struggle to Decolonize English in School Curricula.
In: Sahlane, Ahmed and Pritchard, Rosalind, (eds.)
English as an International Language Education.
(pp. 393-407).
Springer: Cham, Switzerland.
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Abstract
In this chapter, I attempt to introduce broad approaches to decolonizing English in school curricula. It makes the case for a much longer historical trajectory of such efforts, arguing that decolonizing efforts are not simply products of recent awakenings in academia about the need to decolonize power, knowledge and being. Scholars from all over the globe, since the formal ceding of power back to subjugated nations in the 1950s and 1960s, have called for decolonizing the curriculum, including the English language curriculum, in all levels of education, as part of nationalization or cultural indigenization projects aimed at taking ownership of the design of the ex-colonised people’s future. This chapter will feature four innovative intercultural and multilingual approaches to decolonizing English-centred curricula: taking ownership of knowledge, reclaiming local knowledge, embedding English in bi/multilingualism, and deploying translingual pedagogy.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Struggle to Decolonize English in School Curricula |
| ISBN-13: | 9783031347016 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-031-34702-3_20 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34702-3_20 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author-accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Culture, Communication and Media |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10189881 |
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