1st Edition

Imagined Communities and Educational Possibilities A Special Issue of the journal of Language, Identity, and Education

Edited By Yasuko Kanno, Bonny Norton Copyright 2003
112 Pages
by Routledge

116 Pages
by Routledge

112 Pages
by Routledge

Imagined Communities and Educational Possibilities focuses on three main themes: imaged communities expand the range of possible selves, technological advances in the last two decades have had a significant impact on what is possible to imagine, and imagination at even the most personal level is related to social ideologies and hegemonies. The diverse studies in this issue demonstrate... Read more
Volume 2, Number 4, 2003. Contents: Y. Kanno, B. Norton, Imagined Communities and Educational Possibilities: Introduction. A. Pavlenko, "I Never Knew I Was a Bilingual": Re-imagining Teacher Identities in TESOL. D. Dagenais, Accessing Imagined Communities Through Multilingualism and Immersion Education. Y. Kanno, Imagined Communities, School Visions, and the Education of Bilingual Students in Japan. B. Norton, F. Kamal, The Imagined Communities of English Language Learners in a Pakistani School. S. Silberstein, Teaching Culture: Imagined Communities and National Fantasies in the O.J. Simpson Case. A. Blackledge, Imagining a Monocultural Community: Racialization of Cultural Practice in Educational Discourse.

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Yasuko Kanno, Bonny Norton