Dear all,
You are invited to the following free online seminar hosted by the Children & Childhood Research Group in the Education and Social Research Institute (ESRI) at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Date: 30 November 2022, 4 - 5.30 pm (GMT)
Venue: Online
Title: Raciolinguistic ideologies, language oppression and the production in inequality in schools
Speaker: Dr Ian Cushing, Faculty of Education, Edge Hill University

Abstract: Raciolinguistic ideologies are sets of beliefs about language which frame low-income and racialised communities as exhibiting linguistic deficiencies which require correcting. Schools have long been spaces in which these ideologies are maintained, leading to the production of inequality and injustice in how the burden is placed onto marginalised speakers to modify their language towards idealised whiteness. This talk explores some of the ways that raciolinguistic ideologies circulate in England’s schools, taking a genealogical perspective which shows how contemporary practices are grounded in colonial logics. For example, I show how Ofsted have long operated as institutional language police in the ways that they hear racially marginalised speakers to be producing deficient language. I show how narratives around the so-called ‘word gap’ are rooted in anti-Blackness and deficit discourses of what children do with their language. I show how racially minoritised pre-service teachers are instructed to modify, flatten, and completely abandon their ways of using language if they are to be perceived as legitimate. Ultimately, I show how language oppression is normalised and legitimised by the state, under the reductionist logics that social justice and equality can be achieved for marginalised speakers if they would simply modify their voice.

Please use the link below to register:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/children-and-childhood-research-group-tickets-449447889737

We would be grateful if you shared this across your networks.

Kindest regards,
Dr Josephine Gabi
Manchester Metropolitan University

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