Title: Legitimizing and resistance identities in immigrant students' school essays: towards a culturally sustaining pedagogy
Source document: Brno studies in English. 2016, vol. 42, iss. 1, pp. [5]-22
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[5]-22
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ISSN0524-6881 (print)1805-0867 (online)
Persistent identifier (DOI): https://doi.org/10.5817/BSE2016-1-1
Stable URL (handle): https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/136081
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Abstract(s)
The aim of this paper is to show that the ambivalent identities projected by immigrant students could serve the goals of a culturally sustaining pedagogy which seeks to perpetuate cultural pluralism at school. In our view, language teaching should not limit itself to correcting their lexicogrammatical "errors", but could also concentrate on the content of immigrant student essays, so as to bring their identities to the surface. To this end, we investigate the ways young immigrants living in Greece position themselves towards the dominant assimilationist discourse in Greek society. We discuss immigrant students' ambivalent identities showing their wish to legitimize themselves as members of the host community and simultaneously to resist its monoculturalist pressures. We finally argue for the exploitation of immigrant students' texts involving their experiences and identities: such texts could enhance all students' critical language awareness and could foster multiculturalism and multilingualism at school.
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[8] Boutoulousi, Eleni (2002) 'The multicultural school: Critical approaches and cultural awareness'. In: Avdi, Avra and Anastasia Chrysafidou (eds.) Discovering the Wealth of Diversity through Art: Meeting Proceedings of the Comenius and Education without Borders Programs, 28 March–2 April 2001. Thessaloniki: Pegasus, 39-88. [in Greek]
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[22] Sapountzis, Antonis (2013) 'Dominant group members talk about the acculturation of immigrants in Greece: Who is in charge of the acculturation process?' Hellenic Journal of Psychology 10, 24–46.
[23] Sapountzis, Antonis, Lia Figgou, Nikos Bozatzis, Antonis Gardikiotis and Pavlos Pantazis (2006) '"Categories we share": Mobilizing common in-groups in discourse on contemporary immigration in Greece'. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology 23 (4), 347–361.
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