Multilingual crisis communication has emerged as a global challenge during the COVID-19 pandemic. Global public health communication is characterized by the large-scale exclusion of linguistic ...minorities from timely high-quality information. The severe limitations of multilingual crisis communication that the COVID-19 crisis has laid bare result from the dominance of English-centric global mass communication; the longstanding devaluation of minoritized languages; and the failure to consider the importance of multilingual repertoires for building trust and resilient communities. These challenges, along with possible solutions, are explored in greater detail by the articles brought together in this special issue, which present case studies from China and the global Chinese diaspora. As such, the special issue constitutes not only an exploration of the sociolinguistics of the COVID-19 crisis but also a concerted effort to open a space for intercultural dialogue within sociolinguistics. We close by contending that, in order to learn lessons from COVID-19 and to be better prepared for future crises, sociolinguistics needs to include local knowledges and grassroots practices not only as objects of investigation but in its epistemologies; needs to diversify its knowledge base and the academic voices producing that knowledge base; and needs to re-enter dialogue with policy makers and activists.
La siguiente investigación elucida la noción de la alteridad en la educación como experiencia emancipadora en el diálogo intercultural. Se precisa la confluencia de subjetividades que promueven el ...diálogo intercultural, para tejer emancipaciones que desfragmentan las hegemonías sociopolíticas contemporáneas. Los procesos libertarios emplean la educación como herramienta predilecta que articula los saberes propiciadores de sociedades democráticas, al ser estas más justas y equitativas, cónsonas con la dignidad inherente a la vida. Se trata de una investigación de carácter bibliográfico, desde el enfoque racionalista-deductivo. Palabras clave: Alteridad; Diálogo Intercultural; Educación emancipadora; Democracia. The following research elucidates the notion of alterity in education as an emancipatory experience in intercultural dialogue. The confluence of subjectivities that promotes intercultural dialogue is required to weave emancipations that defragment contemporary socio-political hegemonies. The libertarian processes use education as a favorite tool that articulates the knowledge that fosters democratic societies, as these are more just and equitable, in harmony with the inherent dignity of life. This is a bibliographic research, from the rationalist-deductive approach. Keywords: Otherness; Intercultural Dialogue; Emancipatory Education; Democracy.
Indigenous knowledge is generally recognised as an inferior social experience in spaces of knowledge production. The educational issue that results from this process imposes barriers to the ...integration of these epistemologies in the school environment. This study presents a systematic review about the integration of indigenous knowledge in primary schools in developing and/or emerging countries and the results of these interventions. Through a search carried out in the electronic database b-on, from the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Porto in Portugal, 14 studies were selected. This review identified factors that influence the representation of the indigenous culture in the school environment, allowing the construction of a framework in which indigenous knowledge is often neglected in the formal education system with obstacles to its introduction into the school environment. It also revealed that the understanding of the local context is essential in proposing interventions to open a possible intercultural dialogue.
Recognizing the importance of diversity through multiculturalism and its relationship with improvement of democracy through intercultural dialogues has been proposed. It has been considered the ...notion of multiculturalism and its acceptance with consequent and reaffirmation of human rights, as well as challenges inherent to realization of human rights in multicultural environment established by 1988 constitutional text. It is appropriate to mention the works of Parekh, Santos, and Taylor. With the help of the legal-descriptive method, through bibliographic review, legislative documents and analysis of examples, the relevance of the contribution of the theory of multiculturalism to the affirmation of human rights and the guarantee of a democratic legal state has been demonstrated.
El siguiente artículo tiene el propósito de contribuir a la comprensión de las relaciones que se presentan entre las prácticas educativas y conocimientos familiares mapuches y escolares al comenzar ...la escolarización. Describe un proceso investigativo desarrollado durante un año en escuelas rurales de la región de la Araucanía, en el nivel de educación infantil, con niños mapuches de cuatro a seis años, sus familias y educadoras. Como parte del contexto de desarrollo del estudio se consideró que las familias pertenecieran a comunidades mapuches que mantienen una estructura de transición, es decir han perdido su composición comunitaria tradicional, conformándose como grupos familiares extensos. Metodológicamente la investigación se estructuró como un estudio de caso de alcance etnográfico, que incorporó entrevistas y observación participante. Los resultados precisan aspectos micro y macro sociales que afectan las prácticas educativas tanto en el hogar mapuche como en la escuela. En los casos analizados se observa que la relación entre ambos enfoques epistémicos al iniciarse la escolarización se intensifica, estableciéndose procesos de desajuste, asimilación o resistencia cultural. Estos procesos dependen del tipo de vinculación que establezca el o la docente con la base epistémica mapuche.
O presente estudo foca na produção literária dos autores indígenas brasileiros, um fenômeno relativamente recente, relacionado estritamente à conquista dos direitos políticos e sociais pelos povos ...nativos no território do país. A questão central do artigo gira em torno de uma reflexão sobre como as obras dos autores indígenas que começaram a surgir nas prateleiras das livrarias brasileiras na década de 1990, não são alcançáveis pelo conceitos tradicionais da literatura ocidental. Para a compreensão da literatura indígena em sua complexidade e plenitude mostra-se necessário entendê-la como uma manifestação cultural mais abrangente, da qual também nós fazemos parte.
In our paper we will present an experimental proposal of teaching Italian as a second language and promoting plurilingualism and the preservation of the mother tongue in a course organized for ...children of pre-school services and for their parents. The proposal was financed by a FAMI project, called VOCI, a leaded by the municipality of Venice in partnership with the University Ca’ Foscari. All the project was carried out between 2019 and 2021. The project aimed at experimenting actions to facilitate the learning of Italian as a second language (L2) together with contents of civic education for vulnerable learners. Thanks to recent studies it has emerged the need to promote courses of a second language and at the same time to promote all children’s language repertoires. During the experimental proposal that we will present, we organized such type of courses for minors of pre-school services and for their parents. We focused on vocabulary and syntactical aspects useful to tell stories. We will present the syllabus of the course, the activities and the results of two focus group.
El resguardo indígena de Nasa Wesx, al sur del Tolima, ha sido reconocido por su capacidad para establecer diálogos y acuerdos de paz locales con el grupo guerrillero FARC, a pesar de tener profundas ...diferencias étnicas, territoriales y ontológicas. A pesar de esto, lograron reconocer que la violencia no era una alternativa viable para su pueblo, y superaron una confrontación armada de más de 36 años. Para comprender este proceso, es importante dar cuenta de los contextos étnicos y la etnografía como experiencia de conocimiento que analiza la participación de las comunidades indígenas en el conflicto armado y en la construcción de paz. Al centrarse en la relación crítica entre la comunidad Nasa Wesx y el conflicto armado en Colombia, se destaca cómo esta comunidad ha sido tanto participante del conflicto como agente de Lucha y reconciliación.
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