Sabbatical Sojourns Working the local globally and the global locally
Working the local globally Speaking to/talking with local actors -- researchers, teachers, teacher educators, policymakers, Ministry people Observing/talking with teachers and students in classrooms and schools Interacting with community members in adult education and parent involvement settings
About (most often) Bilingualism, biliteracy, and multilingual education Ethnographic and sociolinguistic research in education Language education policy and planning and indigenous language revitalization
Questions they stump me with How to structure bilingual education programs How to design curriculum/materials/pedagogy for indigenous languages How to design curriculum/materials/pedagogy for English language teaching Which varieties of the languages to teach How to introduce change to teachers What to do about community response/parental demand for language of power How to teach a second language (Spanish or English) not available in the local environment How to mobilize societal support for indigenous languages How to train ethnographic researchers How to do a sociolinguistic survey
Working the global locally Local sites wrestling with effects of globalization -- transnationalism, spread of English, indigenous rights movements Two grand questions framing global issues relating to language minorities and education
Two grand questions What educational approaches best serve (indigenous and immigrant) language minority children? Language minority education child salvage What policies, programs and circumstances (educational and other) encourage or contribute to (indigenous and immigrant) minority language maintenance and revitalization? Minority language maintenance/revitalization language salvage
Sabbatical Sojourns Working the local globally and the global locally: Limpopo, South Africa
University of Natal, Durban
University of Natal, Durban Teaching sociolinguistics 1996
Working locally in South Africa - Kwazulu/Natal Keith Chick Fulbright Scholar - LED 1992 & 2000 University of Natal in Durban (UND), Department of Linguistics 1996 USIS Academic Specialist 1999 English Language Education Trust - Durban University of Durban-Westville, Faculty of Applied Language Studies
Working locally in South Africa - Johannesburg, Pretoria, Cape Town Southern African Regional Literacy Forum -- GSE/UNESCO ILI 1995 University of Witwatersrand Applied English Language Studies 1999 Rand Afrikaans University (RAU) 1999 RAU Conference on Qualitative Research 2000 University of Pretoria Centre for Research in the Politics of Language 2000 University of Cape Town Project for Alternative Education in South Africa -- PRAESA 2000
Two South African questions What does education look like in post-apartheid South Africa and what educational alternatives are working for indigenous Zulu, Xhosa, and other African language speakers? How is South Africa s multilingual language policy being implemented in education and what role is it playing in indigenous African and immigrant (e.g. Indian) language maintenance and revitalization?
Zulu & Indian students
Formerly Indian school - Durban
Limpopo, South Africa July 2004 Ten years of multilingualism: Fact or fantasy? International Conference of the Southern African Applied Linguistics Association Hosted by University of Limpopo
No racists allowed
Charles & Lily Wong Fillmore and Prof. G. Rajagopal at the Oasis
Rain dance ensemble
Queen Modjaji dancer
Queen Modjaji youth dancers
Rain dancers
Plenary session at Limpopo
Conferees at lunch
Sharing the limelight with my dissertation advisor, Richard Ruiz
Michael Joseph speaks
Thabo Kgapane and classmate in CELS/MUST bilingual degree program, University of Limpopo
Being interviewed
Esther and CELS/MUST students
BFI in Limpopo Professor Dan Wagner, GSE
PRAESA in Cape Town 2004 Neville Alexander & Carole Bloch
Neville & Carole at Ethnography Forum 2005
Penn GSE Ethnography Forum 2005