Multilingualism and Education

For decades, international researchers and educators have sought to understand how to address cultural and linguistic diversity in education. This book offers the keys to doing so: it brings together short biographies of thirty-six scholars, representing a wide range of universities and countries, to allow them to reflect on their own personal life paths, and how their individual life experiences have led to and informed their research. This approach highlights how theories and concepts have evolved in different contexts, while opening up pedagogical possibilities from diverse backgrounds and enriched by the life experiences of leading researchers in the field. Beyond these questions, the book also explores the dynamic relationships between languages, power and identities, as well as how these relationships raise broader societal issues that permeate both global and local language practices. It is essential reading for students, teacher educators, and researchers interested in the impact of multilingualism on education.

1. Humanizing research(ers) and understanding how concepts evolve in context Gail Prasad, Nathalie Auger and Emmanuelle Le Pichon Vorstman; 2. Become a teacher-researcher to find your Turkish Mehmet-Ali Akinci; 3. Between languages, norms and social variations Nathalie Auger; 4. Learning to language, learning to live: an essay on literacies of language learning Theresa Austin; 5. A retrospective look at multi/pluri/linguistic transformations Francis Bangou; 6. Multilingualism as lived, felt and evolving through dialogue and melody of life Dat Bao and Phan Le Ha; 7. Revisiting the 'Plurilingual-intercultural' orthodoxy Jean-Claude Beacco; 8. The languages that started to flourish in our childhood, developed over time into beautiful blooming meadows Mercè Bernaus and Emilee Moore; 9. On the borderline between languages and knowledge Marisa Cavalli; 10. Multilingualism as part of social reality Viktorija L. A. ¿eginskas; 11. Some elements of family history and language biography Daniel Coste; 12. My trajectory in languages and language learning Diane Dagenais; 13. Multilingualism as norm: advocating for Equity for multilingual learners Ester de Jong; 14. From patois to inter-comprehension issues Pierre Escudé; 15. Biography, linguistic coexistence, and epistemological reflection Carole Fleuret; 16. Fighting off zombies in France's multilingual education Gilles Forlot; 17. From language planning to the didactization of plurilingualism: a Swiss perspective Laurent Gajo; 18. A sociolinguistic biography and understandings of bilingualism Ofelia García; 19. Experiential and research journey: questioning linguistic and cultural otherness Cécile Goï; 20. Multimodality and multilingualism: biographical notes, key concepts, and practices Maureen Kendrick; 21. Researching multilingualism and language education across borders and over decades Kendall A. King; 22. Possible selves Claire Kramsch; 23. Feeling at home across languages, schools and countries Emmanuelle Le Pichon-Vorstman; 24. From monolingual habitus to plurilingual education David Little; 25. My path towards awareness of languages and linguistic diversity Marie-Paule Lory; 26. A personal journey: school, social class, and language Jeff MacSwan; 27. Cultivating plurilingual gardens Enrica Piccardo; 28. Unbecoming a monolingual anglophone Gail Prasad; 29. From plurilingual experiences to pluri-artistic practices Elatiana Razafimandimbimanana; 30. A personal and professional journey to multilingualism Nikolay Slavkov (¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿); 31. Journey towards a translanguaging pedagogy for social justice: from school French to critical race theory Heather Jane Smith; 32. From language biography to a research life's journey Shelley K. Taylor; 33. My linguistic biography Kelleen Toohey; 34. Travelling back and forth between local language variation and global multilingualism Piet van Avermaet and Sven Sierens; 35. A reflection on generational diaspora and resulting linguistic acclimatization Rahat Zaidi; 36. On language(s), education and dynamic language users: final words and future directions Nathalie Auger, Gail Prasad Emmanuelle Le Pichon-Vorstman; Index.