Liberating Language Education

Introduction : why liberating language education? / Vally Lytra, Cristina Ros i Solé, Jim Anderson, Vicky Macleroy -- Section I: Policies, discourses, and ideologies -- "I don't think we encourage the use of their home language..." : exploring 'multilingualism light' in a London primary school / Thomas Quehl -- Discursive constructions of enslavement and the enslaved in Kreol textbooks in Mauritius / Ambarin Mooznah Auleear Owodally -- Appropriating Portuguese language policies in England / Cátia Verguete -- Making sense of the internal diversities of Greek schools abroad : exploring the purposeful use of translation as communicative resource for language learning and identity construction / Vally Lytra -- Commentary for Section I / Ana Souza -- Section II: Language-living : materialities, affectivities and becomings -- Languaging in language cafés : emotion work, creating alternative worlds, and metalanguaging / Nuria Polo-Pérez and Prue Holmes -- Language studies as transcultural becoming and participation : undoing language boundaries across the Danube region / Eszter Tarsoly and Jelena Ćalić -- The textures of language : an auto-ethnography of a gloves collection / Cristina Ros i Solé -- Commentary for Section II / Simon Coffey -- Section III: Transcultural journeying and aesthetics -- Visual art in Arabic foreign and heritage language-and-culture learning : expanding the scope for meaning-making / Jim Anderson -- Creating spaces for translingual and transcultural meaning-making in a London Greek complementary school / Maria Charalambous -- Unpacking entanglements in practice : language learning in technology-rich learning environments / Koula Charitonos -- Translanguaging art : exploring the transformative potential of contemporary art for language teaching in the multilingual context / Dobrochna Futro -- Commentary for Section III / Alison Phipps -- Section IV: Voices, identities, and citizenship -- How weird is weird? : young people, activist citizenship and multivoiced digital stories / Yu-Chiao Chung and Vicky Macleroy -- 'Animating objects' : co-creation in digital story making between planning and play / Gabriele Budach, Gohar Sharoyan and Daniela Loghin -- Visual representations of multilingualism : exploring aesthetic approaches to communication in a fine art context / Jessica Bradley, Zhu Hua and Louise Atkinson -- Commentary for Section IV / Kate Pahl -- Conclusion : language education collages / Vally Lytra, Cristina Ros i Solé, Jim Anderson, Vicky Macleroy.