Foreword: The Power of an Onto-Epistemological View of Race by Nelson Flores
Excerpt
"Multiculturalism, Language, and Race in English Education in Japan is an excellent model for scholars and educators looking to develop similar projects that seek to adopt a raciolinguistic perspective in contexts outside of the Euro-American geopolitical center. It manages to balance providing practical advice to English language teachers working in Japan with more general theoretical work that helps those of us not as familiar with this context to identify possible synergies with research and teaching in other contexts. My hope is that work like this continues to emerge in the coming years in ways that help us all to understand the global power of race in modern/colonial worldmaking. My hope is that we also continue to identify alternative worlds that are not completely determined and sometimes resist this modern/colonial worldmaking in our local contexts. These efforts should be continued in order to develop new forms of global solidarity in applied linguistics that have connections to broader abolitionist movements formed to dismantle white supremacy and construct new socially just and inclusive futures." (pp. 4–5).
About the Contributor
Nelson Flores is Associate Professor of Educational Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. His research examines the educational experiences of Latinx students in U.S. schools with attention to issues of race, language, policy, and practice.
Citation
Flores, N. (2023). Foreword: Towards an onto-epistemological view of race. In G. P. Glasgow (Ed.), Multiculturalism, language, and race in English education in Japan: Agency, pedagogy, and reckoning (pp. 1–6). Candlin & Mynard. https://doi.org/10.47908/26/f
"Multiculturalism, Language, and Race in English Education in Japan is an excellent model for scholars and educators looking to develop similar projects that seek to adopt a raciolinguistic perspective in contexts outside of the Euro-American geopolitical center. It manages to balance providing practical advice to English language teachers working in Japan with more general theoretical work that helps those of us not as familiar with this context to identify possible synergies with research and teaching in other contexts. My hope is that work like this continues to emerge in the coming years in ways that help us all to understand the global power of race in modern/colonial worldmaking. My hope is that we also continue to identify alternative worlds that are not completely determined and sometimes resist this modern/colonial worldmaking in our local contexts. These efforts should be continued in order to develop new forms of global solidarity in applied linguistics that have connections to broader abolitionist movements formed to dismantle white supremacy and construct new socially just and inclusive futures." (pp. 4–5).
About the Contributor
Nelson Flores is Associate Professor of Educational Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. His research examines the educational experiences of Latinx students in U.S. schools with attention to issues of race, language, policy, and practice.
Citation
Flores, N. (2023). Foreword: Towards an onto-epistemological view of race. In G. P. Glasgow (Ed.), Multiculturalism, language, and race in English education in Japan: Agency, pedagogy, and reckoning (pp. 1–6). Candlin & Mynard. https://doi.org/10.47908/26/f
Information About the Book
Title: Multiculturalism, Language, and Race in English Education in Japan: Agency, Pedagogy, and Reckoning
Editor: Gregory Paul Glasgow
Publication date: March 2023
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Title: Multiculturalism, Language, and Race in English Education in Japan: Agency, Pedagogy, and Reckoning
Editor: Gregory Paul Glasgow
Publication date: March 2023
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