CES3E2-Deindustrializing writing education

Dr. Amir Kalan talks about his upcoming book “Sociocultural and Power Relational Dimensions of Multilingual Writing”. Here, Dr. Kalan explains how Western academic writing follows a process of capitalist industrialization of levelling and separating the languages skills as if this were a mechanical system. He suggested several solutions to these mentalities such as restructuring writing classes and some pedagogical practices from creative narrative formation to collaborative and identity writing while paying attention to multimodal forms of assessment.
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https://youtu.be/BD3bH7Pj03g

Bio:
Dr. Amir Kalan is a Lecturer at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. He teaches educational research methods and research writing to Canadian pre-service teachers in the Master of Teaching program. His research interests include critical writing studies, multilingual writing, multiliteracies, digital humanities, and practitioner inquiry.

Sources:
Kalan, A. (2016). Who’s Afraid of Multilingual Education?: Conversations with Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Jim Cummins, Ajit Mohanty and Stephen Bahry about the Iranian Context and Beyond. Multilingual Matters.

Cite this podcast (APA):
Ortega, Y. (Producer). (2020, February 5). CES3E2 – Deindustrializing writing education
[Audio podcast]. https://soundcloud.com/chasingencounters/ces3e2-deindustrializing-writing-education