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Using Theories of Language and Power to Investigate Pressing Aspects of Education

Mon, April 11, 7:45 to 9:45am, Marriott Marquis, Floor: Level Two, Marquis Salon 10

Session Type: Symposium

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Educators use language in different ways in different professional settings. Yet language uses the education participants, too: framing their realities, co-constructing their situated identities, tying them to (and breaking them out of) various social histories, and shaping and maintaining their working relationships with others. This proposed symposium draws on a rich theoretical history of language study and social-practice theories (along with more recent research) to both deepen and update consideration of how language operates in macro, meso, and micro levels of education—and how explicit language treatments of power in (and of) language reveal complex combinations of oppression and empowerment for practitioners, community members, students, and policy makers in the current educational climate.

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