Description

Rethinking Heritage Language Education
by
Peter Pericles Trifonas, OISE – University of Toronto
and
Themistoklis Aravossitas, CERES – Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto

This newly released book brings together emerging and established researchers in the field of Heritage Language Education to negotiate concepts and practices and to investigate the correlation between culture, language and identity from a pedagogic and socio-political point of view. The book addresses the multilingual context of education in different national and international settings, including issues of mainstreaming plurilingualism, identifying ideologies of pedagogical practice, mapping cultural and linguistic assets and empowering learners, teachers and communities. Rethinking Heritage Language Education re-examines the dimensions of traditional interpretations of language education in relation to the principles of equity, social justice, and linguistic rights in the new millennium.

Peter Pericles Trifonas is a Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. His areas of interest include ethics, philosophy of education, cultural studies, literacy and technology. Some of his books are: Revolutionary Pedagogies: Cultural Politics, Instituting Education, and the Discourse of Theory, The Ethics of Writing: Derrida, Deconstruction, and Pedagogy, Ethics, Institutions and The Right to Philosophy (with Jacques Derrida), Roland Barthes and the Empire of Signs, Umberto Eco and Football, Pedagogies of Difference, Deconstructing the Machine (with Jacques Derrida), International Handbook of Semiotics and Counter Texts: Reading Culture.

Themistoklis Aravossitas teaches Modern Greek Language and Culture at the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs, andhe specializes in Heritage Language Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. His research investigates the role of community education in preserving linguistic and cultural diversity. His current research is entitled “The Hidden Schools: Mapping Greek Heritage Language Education in Canada”.