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Publication Date: 2021
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The Hidden Curriculum of Monolingualism: Understanding Metonymy to Interrogate Problematic Representations of Raciolinguistic Identities in Schoolscapes
Przymus, Steve Daniel; Huddleston, Gabriel
International Journal of Multicultural Education, v23 n1 p67-86 2021
Choices regarding how signs are displayed in schools send messages regarding the status of languages and speakers of those languages. The monolingual paradigm can be implicitly reified by the position, shape, color, etc. of languages in relation to English on school signage (Przymus & Kohler, 2018). This can have a negative impact for culturally and linguistically diverse youth. In combining bilingual/multicultural education with linguistic landscape research, we uncover a hidden curriculum of raciolinguistic ideologies (Alim, 2016), and confront the hegemony found on some of the most overlooked and under questioned representations of curriculum - signs in schools.
Descriptors: Hidden Curriculum, Monolingualism, Racial Bias, Language Usage, Signs, Multicultural Education, Bilingual Education, Ideology, Bilingualism, English, Spanish, Equal Education
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