Lights, Camera and (Re)Action!: Critically Rethinking Translanguaging and Language Teacher Education from Decolonial Perspectives
Welcome to the Flash Course Lights, Camera and (Re)Action!
In this short but powerful learning experience, you are invited to critically reflect on language, identity, and education. Drawing from personal experiences and academic research, Professor Kleber Aparecido da Silva opens up a dialogue on linguistic policies, racism, inequality, privilege, and social representation. Through decolonial lenses, this course invites you to step outside your own worldview and explore what it means to be “the other” in an incredibly diverse and plural society — where language is never neutral, and education is always political.
Content
What You Will Learn:
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What translanguaging is and how it connects to critical pedagogical practices.
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How language policies can reproduce or resist social inequalities.
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How class, identity, and language intersect in teacher education.
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Ways to develop more inclusive, plural, and decolonial educational practices.
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Contemporary reflections on contemporary contexts through real-life narratives and lived experiences.
Target Audience
Who Should Enrol?
Educators looking to challenge their assumptions and broaden their pedagogical perspectives; students interested in language, identity, and social justice; and anyone curious about how language, power, and education intersect from a critical and decolonial point of view.
Motivation
Why Take This Course?
Because to question language is to question the world. This course invites you to go beyond traditional educational structures and critically examine the systems of power shaping how we teach and learn. With a sensitive, interdisciplinary, and thought-provoking approach, it offers inspiration for educators and students committed to building more just, conscious, and transformative learning environments.