ERIC Number: EJ1397604
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 12
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ISSN: ISSN-0950-0782
EISSN: EISSN-1747-7581
Translanguaging through the Body: Centering Geographies of Selves in Latinx Pre-Service Teacher Education
Language and Education, v37 n5 p639-650 2023
Traversing metaphorical, literal, and epistemological borders everyday creates and produces new ways of being and knowing. These migrations have afforded many with ways to live in the in-betweenness of multiple languages, identities, and knowledges. In this conceptual essay, we focus on Gloria AnzaldĂșa's concept of geographies of selves to support ideas of translanguaging as a theory and pedagogy of linguistic embodiment. The body moves through space and time gathering information, knowledge, and wisdom to produce hybrid languages and culture and ultimately new knowledges. We specifically look towards the borderlands embodied experiences as central to new ways of understanding how bodies/identities express different realities and knowledges through language. We offer implications for Latinx pre-service education.
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Translation, Bilingualism, Preservice Teacher Education, Hispanic American Students, Human Body, Cultural Influences, Self Concept
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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