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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821366403321

Autore

Sterzuk Andrea

Titolo

The Struggle for Legitimacy : Indigenized Englishes in Settler Schools / / Andrea Sterzuk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Blue Ridge Summit, PA : , : Multilingual Matters, , [2011]

©2011

ISBN

1-283-33341-4

9786613333414

1-84769-519-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (146 p.)

Collana

Critical Language and Literacy Studies

Disciplina

427/.971

Soggetti

Education -- Canada

English language -- Study and teaching

English language -- Variation -- Canada

English language - Variation - Canada

English language - Study and teaching

English

Languages & Literatures

English Language

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. Settler Societies and Language -- 2. Looking at English Language Variation in Schools: Current and Critical Directions -- 3. Colonial Ideologies and Discourses -- 4. Constructing Race in Settler Saskatchewan -- 5. The Racialization of Space and School in Settler Saskatchewan -- 6. Suppressing Linguistic Alterity in Settler Schools -- 7. ‘Radical Solutions’ for Schools and Teacher Education -- References -- Subject and Author Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the experiences of Indigenous students in settler schools by using the example of a Canadian school as a window into the relationship between colonial discourses, indigenized English language varieties, racialized identities, and the biased educational



practices of settler schools. The book aims to develop awareness of the colonial past and its present-day influences on settler schools; to take a close look at the effects of present-day settler nationalism on constructions of race and language in settler schools; and to explore what could be done differently to lessen present-day and future educational inequity. The book will have great appeal to education students, educators, teacher educators, and educational researchers in settler contexts.