A sensory experiment into languages as (re)volution

VAUDRIN-CHARETTE, Julie and BEARD, Colin (2017). A sensory experiment into languages as (re)volution. Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, 14 (1).

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Abstract

How are we informed and transformed by tuning into our relationships to land, emotions, relations, and bodies within our academic pathways into languages? In this paper, we tell a story of our journey, as scholars, into how languages relate to land, historicity, bodies, and the ecosophical concept of ubuntu. Our discussion brings in the temporal and spatial multi-disciplinary lineage of languages, as an open space to re-envision, re-experience, and re-engage with our academic writing in new and ancient ways. We use multimodal layers of language ontology—from ecological, physical, historical, and intercultural perspectives—as a decolonizing, pedagogical process of (re)covering humanness. We use the particular example of academic writing and reading as a sensory experience to dive into languages as ontological ways of becoming human. And because we are academics (or failed magicians) we try to provide insights into theoretical and practical ways to transform this conversation into pedagogy.

Item Type:	Article
Research Institute, Centre or Group - Does NOT include content added after October 2018:	Centre for Pedagogic Research and Innovation
Departments - Does NOT include content added after October 2018:	Sheffield Business School > Department of Service Sector Management
Depositing User:	Hilary Ridgway
Date Deposited:	18 Nov 2016 12:29
Last Modified:	18 Mar 2021 07:08
URI:	https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/14050

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