Please join us for a talk by Dr. Nelson Flores (University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education)
From bilingual to bi-languaged: Language ideologies and bilingual education in the face of neoliberalism
Date: Friday, April 1st
Time: 10:00 AM
Place: Gentry 131
Abstract: Bilingual education scholarship and practice have emphasized the socially transformative potential of these programs. While not challenging this assertion, this presentation focuses on the ways that bilingual education has been socially reproductive. Specifically, it examines the ways that dominant framings of bilingual education have been complicit in the formation of governable subjects to fit the political and economic needs of modern society. It begins with an analysis of the rise of nation-state/colonial governmentality and the ways that the monoglossic language ideologies associated with this form of governance have informed dominant approaches to bilingual education in ways that have marginalized language-minoritized communities. It then examines the recent rise of neoliberal governmentality and the ways that the heteroglossic language ideologies associated with this form of governance have aligned bilingual education with the spread of global capitalism. The presentations ends with calls for making the study of subject formation central to bilingual education scholarship and advocacy.
Bio: Dr. Nelson Flores is assistant professor in the Educational Linguistics Division at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. His research involves the study of the historical and contemporary instantiation of raciolinguistic ideologies, where language and race are co-constructed in ways that marginalize racialized communities. He has published his work in numerous peer-reviewed journals including Harvard Educational Review, TESOL Quarterly and International Journal of the Sociology of Language.
Dr. Flores’ visit is co-sponsored by:
The Office of the Dean, Neag School of Education
The Department of Curriculum and Instruction
The Department of Literatures, Cultures and Languages
PRLACC (Puerto Rican/Latin American Cultural Center)
El Instituto
For more information, contact: Michele Back at michele.back@uconn.edu