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by Kathleen Heugh (Editor), Christopher Stroud (Editor), Kerry Taylor-Leech (Editor)
This book brings to life initiatives among scholars of the south and north to understand better the intelligences and pluralities of multilingualisms in southern communities and spaces of decoloniality.
Author Biography
Kathleen Heugh, UniSA Education Futures, University of South Australia, is a socio-applied linguist specializing in southern multilingualisms, transknowledging and multilingual literacies in post- and decolonial education, policy and planning in Africa, Asia, and Australia. Her work includes field research with displaced, post-conflict, and remote communities, system-wide assessment, evaluation, and teacher education.
Christopher Stroud is Emeritus Professor at the University of the Western Cape and Professor of Transnational Bilingualism at Stockholm University. His current research focuses on practices and ideologies of multilingualism in Southern Africa, exploring the notion of Linguistic Citizenship as a decolonial framework for language and diversity.
Kerry Taylor-Leech is an socio-applied linguist based in the School of Education and Professional Studies at Griffith University, Queensland. She has published widely on issues dealing with language policy and planning, development, identity, and language choice, particularly in Timor-Leste. She co-edits Current Issues in Language Planning Journal.
Peter I. De Costa is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Languages and the Department of Teacher Education at Michigan State University. His research areas include emotions, identity, ideology, and ethics in educational linguistics and social (in)justice issues. He is the co-editor of TESOL Quarterly.
