Challenging understandings in pluralistic societies language and culture loose in school sites, and losing sight of democratic agendas in education?

dc.creator	Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta
dc.date	2004-01-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:05:36Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:05:36Z
dc.identifier	1102-6472
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/fd5de79afd3645f99fc0dc1c940c3596
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/9868
dc.description	This article highlights dominant and selective traditions vis-à-vis languageand culture in terms of how schools and academics are organized, curriculaand syllabi are structured and what is made explicit in social practices ineducation. Selective traditions allow language to be organized and “natura-lized” in concepts that are linear, relational and geographical and in terms ofhorizontal (i.e. different language codes) and vertical (i.e. different learner cate-gories) divisions such that communication and meaning-making potentials ofeducation remain unexploited. Currently available metaphors vis-à-vis cul-ture build upon static constructions of Self and Other. This article discussesimportant policy paradoxes and calls for the need to give visibility to com-plexities in school sites. Juxtaposing traditions of operationalizing languageand culture in educational settings through selective understandings regar-ding learning and development creates, it is argued here, a challenge fordemocratic experiences within institutionalized education.
dc.language	Swedish
dc.language	Danish
dc.language	Norwegian
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Örebro University
dc.relation	http://www.oru.se/Extern/Forskning/Forskningsmiljoer/HumUS/Utbildning_och_Demokrati/Tidskriften/2004/Nr_3/Bagga-Gupta.pdf
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1102-6472
dc.source	Utbildning & Demokrati : Tidsskrift för Didaktik och Utbildningspolitik, Vol 13, Iss 3, Pp 11-36 (2004)
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.title	Challenging understandings in pluralistic societies language and culture loose in school sites, and losing sight of democratic agendas in education?
dc.type	article