Language, Space and Power

A Critical Look at Bilingual Education

By (author) Dr. Samina Hadi-Tabassum

Publication date:

06 April 2006

Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Dimensions:

210x148mm
6x8"

ISBN-13: 9781853598791

Language, Space, and Power describes the sociolinguistic and sociocultural life of a Spanish-English dual language classroom in which attention is given to not only the language learning processes at hand but also to how race, ethnicity, and gender dynamics interact within the language acquisition process.

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Research Setting

Chapter 2. Language Space and Power: Examining Metalinguistic Conflicts Along the Borderlands

Chapter 3. The Cheers: The Ethics of Making Aesthetic Judgements

Chapter 4. Jack, Su Mama Y El Burro: The Performitivity of Race, Gender and Language in a Bilingual Play

Chapter 5. The Flow and Movement of Music: Appropriating the Third Space

Chapter 6. Conclusion: False Binaries and True Dialectics

References

Index

"Dr. Hadi-Tabassum’s critical ethnography of a fifth grade dual language classroom challenges the positivist view of language and culture in education as bounded, essentialized entities. Dr. Hadi-Tabassum explores how students utilized resources in music, language arts, and popular culture to make fluid the seemingly clear and definite border between English and Spanish and Anglo and Latino/a cultures. In these “third spaces” where English and Spanish mixed in politicized and poetic forms, Dr. Hadi-Tabassum offers a vision of contemporary education within hybrid and contingent events."