ECED 407 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8.2: Critical Discourse Analysis, Cosmopolitanism, Symbolic Capital
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Perspectives and theories that student teachers encounter in their teaching education programs have a profound impact on their future teacher identity and pedagogy. Their essays show that exposure to contemporary theories of bilingualism and debates on the native/nonnative speaker dichotomy opened up the possibility of seeing themselves and their future students as members of the community of multicompetent. L2 users rather than that of nonnative speakers. Extensive interviews with parents of asian background suggest that they are preparing their children not only for the competitive canadian job market but also for membership in imagined multilingual, transnational communities. Multilingualism and globalization are also changing educational priorities in japan. Using critical discourse analysis, adrian blackledge examines covert racism in the educational discourse of school inspection reports in england. These reports criticize ethnic minority families" lengthy visits to their heritage country, arguing that such visits result in their children"s prolonged absence from british schooling.
