A research and expository notebook by Orest Kinasevych
“In turn, this sense of loss over ‘property’ leads to a need to re-establish ownership of English through the act of othering the racialised Englishes of students.” (p 56)
“As a number of theorists have pointed out (Hall, 1992; White & Hunt, 2000), personal identity is closely interconnected with collective or national identities. National identity and culture often appear to be unchanging and unidimensional, systems of symbols, behaviors, and values that are somehow immutable or even ethereal (Fulford, 1993). Every nation-state must ‘create a coherent national identity and … subordinate sub-regional or diverse ethnic identities in order to complement ideologically the economic union’ (Teeple, 2000, p. 164).” (p 68)
“Postcolonial scholars, for example, demonstrated that colonizing powers narrated an ‘other’ whom they set out to save, dominate, control, civilize, and/or extract resources through colonization.” (p 329)
“There are powerful arguments that exist in advocating for educators’ involvement in anti-racist and social justice undertakings, yet at the core of these exists how responsibility is understood and enacted in face-to-face interactions.” (p 46)
Kinasevych, O. (2017, May). Culture in the Balance: Risks and Rewards of Technology in Indigenous Language Learning. Presented at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences 2017 & 2017 Conference of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE), Toronto. References Abele, F., & Stasiulis, D. (1989). Canada as a “White Settler … Read more
“… but ordinarily he must enter a strange environment and undergo possible culture shock while becoming accommodated to the new life.” (p 505)