Tag: Critical theory
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European Day of Languages 2025: What Are We Really Celebrating?
Beyond posters and slogans, what does the European Day of Languages really mean? This post reflects on how we might move from symbolic recognition to genuinely sustaining the plurality of voices that shape contemporary Europe.
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Call for chapters: Demystifying Critical Thinking in Multilingual and Intercultural Education
Proposals are invited for an edited volume, entitled Critical Thinking in multilingual and intercultural education, to be published in 2016, by Info Age Publishing as part of their Contemporary Language Education series. According to the book editors, Fred Dervin and Julie Byrd Clark: One of the most basic definitions of CT could be: “The ability to…
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Chapter published: Understanding and Challenging ‘the Known’
In this post I summarise the chapter Understanting and Challenging the Known from a Complexity Perspective (Kostoulas, 2014)
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Isms in Language Education: Oppression, Intersectionality & Emancipation
Update (October 2017) The volume advertised in this post has now been published in the Language and Social Life series of de Gruyter Mouton. The title of the volume has been updated to Isms in Language Education: Oppression, Intersectionality and Emancipation. The volume consists of 12 chapters which greatly enrich the critical discourse in language education.
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Call for papers: Resistance to the known in FLE
Update: Published! It gives me great pleasure to announce that Resistance to the Known, the edited volume that was advertised in the call for papers below, has now been published by Macmillan Palgrave. You can read more about the book, which contains a chapter by me, here. The content that follows is no longer current, but…