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Radicalizing Literacies and Languaging

A Framework toward Dismantling the Mono-Mainstream Assumption

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Authors:
  1. Alexandra Babino

    1. Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Texas A&M University-Commerce, Commerce, USA

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  2. Mary Amanda Stewart

    1. Department of Literacy and Learning, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, USA

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  • Brings together concepts from literacy, bi/multilingual, and linguistics research
  • Addresses the collective impact of English hegemony, white supremacy, and neoliberalism on multilingual people in school systems
  • Provides four testimonios of multilingual people at various stages of development adolescent, young adult, and adult)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Dismantling the Mono-Mainstream Assumption

    • Alexandra Babino, Mary Amanda Stewart
    Pages 1-30

  3. Literacies

    • Alexandra Babino, Mary Amanda Stewart
    Pages 31-70

  4. Languaging

    • Alexandra Babino, Mary Amanda Stewart
    Pages 71-113

  5. Critical Sociocultural Lens

    • Alexandra Babino, Mary Amanda Stewart
    Pages 115-146

  6. Mia: A Passionate Pre-Service Bilingual Teacher

    • Alexandra Babino, Mary Amanda Stewart
    Pages 147-165

  7. Angélica: A Spanish/English Dual Language Graduate

    • Alexandra Babino, Mary Amanda Stewart
    Pages 167-184

  8. Carmen Elvira: An Adult ESL Student (and Teacher) Newly Arrived from Mexico

    • Alexandra Babino, Mary Amanda Stewart
    Pages 185-203

  9. Chitra: A 2nd-Generation Persian Teacher in a Spanish/English Dual Language Class

    • Alexandra Babino, Mary Amanda Stewart
    Pages 205-223

  10. A Critical Sociocultural Cross-Case Analysis

    • Alexandra Babino, Mary Amanda Stewart
    Pages 225-246

  11. Radical Response That Challenges the Status Quo

    • Alexandra Babino, Mary Amanda Stewart
    Pages 247-265

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 267-272
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About this book

This book names and confounds the mono-mainstream assumption that invisibly frames much research, the ideologies that normalize monolingualism, monoculturalism, monoliteracy, mononationalism, and/or monomodal ways of knowing. In its place, the authors propose multi- and trans- lenses of these phenomena steeped in a raciolinguistic perspective on Bourdieu’s reflexive sociology to move toward a more accurate, multidimensional view of racialized peoples’ literacy and language practices. To achieve this, they first engage in a comprehensive review of literacies, languaging, and a critical sociocultural framework. Then, the distinct testimonios of four women underscore this framework in practice, followed by action steps for research, policy, and pedagogy. This book will be of particular interest to literacy and language education researchers. 


     

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“This book represents an original contribution that will help bridge the dichotomy between research and practice in two interrelated fields, literacy and applied linguistics. As one of the few of its kind, the book will be particularly relevant to emerging and new scholars.” (Erica Saldivar Garcia, New York University, USA)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Texas A&M University-Commerce, Commerce, USA

    Alexandra Babino

  • Department of Literacy and Learning, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, USA

    Mary Amanda Stewart

About the authors

Alexandra (Ale) Babino is Assistant Professor and Director of Bilingual/ESL Education at Texas A&M University – Commerce, USA. She explores how and why bilinguals become biliterate and bicultural from a systems’ perspective in dual language and teacher preparation programs.

Mary Amanda (Mandy) Stewart is Associate Professor of Literacy at Texas Woman's University, USA. Her research promotes the biliteracy of adolescent emergent bilinguals, focusing on translingual and critical pedagogies.

          

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Radicalizing Literacies and Languaging

  • Book Subtitle: A Framework toward Dismantling the Mono-Mainstream Assumption

  • Authors: Alexandra Babino, Mary Amanda Stewart

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56138-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56137-6Published: 27 October 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56140-6Published: 27 October 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-56138-3Published: 26 October 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 272

  • Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Multilingualism, Literacy, Sociology of Culture, Language Education, Bilingualism

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