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Migration, Education and Translation – call for chapters

MIGRATION, EDUCATION AND TRANSLATION:

Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Human Mobility and Cultural Encounters

 

 Collection of peer-reviewed essays edited by Vivienne Anderson & Henry Johnson (Centre for Global Migrations, University of Otago)

 

This multidisciplinary collection of essays will examine the connections between education, migration and translation. The editors welcome chapter proposals on the following topics (other topics will be given due consideration):

  • The translation of ideas in educational contexts
  • Education and communication beyond language
  • Intercultural communication in education
  • Untranslatability
  • “Otherness” and education
  • Colonial and postcolonial perspectives
  • Language survival and maintenance
  • Minority and endangered languages
  • Linguistic loss
  • Linguistic imperialism
  • Linguistic hospitality
  • Bilingual education
  • Language teaching and language learning
  • Critical perspectives on education
  • Power, hegemony, education and language
  • Internationalisation and education
  • Forced migrations and education
  • Educational access
  • Multilingual research and writing
  • Translanguaging and bi/multilingual learning strategies
  • Linguistic translation in education
  • Compulsory education and language
  • Resilience in education

Timeline:

250-word abstracts by 18 June 2018 to henry.johnson@otago.ac.nz

Please include a short bio of about 150 words.

Proposals will be reviewed by 15 July 2018.

Chapters (6000 words including references and footnotes) submitted by 15 November 2018.

A PDF with further details can be viewed here.migration education cfp book (66KB)

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