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The Struggle for Legitimacy : the Indigenized Englishes in Settler Schools.

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Channel View Publications Ltd 2011.
Colección:Critical language and literacy studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Titlepage; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1 Settler Societies and Language; Introduction; Describing Racial and Linguistic Identities; A Radical Counternarrative of English Language Variation in One Settler School; Racial Domination Forged in the Past; Resisting the 'Regulatory Apparatus' of Linguistics; Struggling for Legitimacy; Overview of the Book; 2 Looking at English Language Variation in Schools: Current and Critical Directions; Introduction; Existing Literature on English Language Variation in Schools; A Critical Direction for English Language Variation and Education.
  • Theoretical Contributions from Postcolonial ThinkingTheoretical Contributions from CRT; Conclusion; 3 Colonial Ideologies and Discourses 45; Introduction; Ideologies and Discourses; European Expansion and Settler Colonialism; Conclusion; 4 Constructing Race in Settler Saskatchewan; Introduction; A Story of Conquest and Invasion; Becoming White by Learning about Others; Why White Settlers Need to Dominate Others; Conclusion; 5 The Racialization of Space and School in Settler Saskatchewan; Introduction; East Side Meets West Side.
  • Keeping Things White: Settler Resistance to Violations of Racialized BoundariesLiteracy as 'White Property'; Conclusion; 6 Suppressing Linguistic Alterity in Settler Schools; Linguistic Dominance; Standard Language Cultures; Literacy Development; Conclusion; 7 'Radical Solutions' for Schools and Teacher Education; Introduction; Review of Main Arguments; Implications for Schools, Teacher Education and Future Research; References; Subject and Author Index.