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Multilingualism and Multimodality - Current Challenges for Educational Studies (Hardcover)
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Multilingualism and Multimodality - Current Challenges for Educational Studies (Hardcover)
Series: The Future of Education Research, 2
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In the social sciences and humanities, researchers often qualify
the period in which we are living as 'late-modern', 'post-modern'
or 'superdiverse'. These terms seek to capture changing conditions
and priorities brought about by a new social order. This social
order is characterized, among other traits, by an increased
visibility of social, cultural and linguistic diversity, arising
out of unprecedented migration and mobility patterns. It is also
associated with the development of information and communication
technologies, which in the digital era transform communication
patterns, identities, relationships and possibilities for action.
For education, these late-modern conditions create numerous
interesting challenges, given that they are of course reflected in
the classroom and other sites of learning. Conditions of
'superdiversity' mean that, in educational institutions, varied
practices, linguistic repertoires, and symbolic resources come into
contact, posing questions about how institutions and actors choose
to deal with this diversity. Likewise, digital technologies with
their possibilities for assembling and using multimodal texts in
new ways transform the learning experience, redefining what counts
as teaching, learning, knowledge, or assessment. By providing
careful analyses of policies and interactions in superdiverse,
technologically complex, educational contexts, the authors of this
volume contribute something important: they give a shape - a
semiotic form - to some of the issues raised by transnational
migration, sociocultural diversity, and digital complexity. They
construct a framework for reflecting about the new social order and
its impact on education. They also reveal the kinds of new
questions and new terrains that can and must be explored by
linguistic research if it wants to stay relevant for education in
these times of change.
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