Ray, Raktim;
(2024)
Conflict Politics as Developmentalism.
In: Dauncey, Emil and Desai, Vandana and Potter, Robert B, (eds.)
The Companion to Development Studies.
Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group: London, UK.
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Abstract
This chapter looks at the nuances of silence in multilingual education teacher training, unpacking the responses of a group of licensed Filipino teachers who joined an online training programme in sociolinguistics for education. The group in question, composed of student-teachers coming from one institution located in one of the provinces in the country, has remained relatively silent or unresponsive throughout the programme, although they have turned in writing outputs as part of the requirements for completion. This chapter argues -- and demonstrates -- how silence is a nuanced cultural response to prevalent dominant ideas circulating within the programme. Although the group members would have failed to complete the programme because of their failure to participate in compulsory dialogues on multilingual education, the facilitators took the silence as indicators of deeper rooted misalignments with the programme's understanding of mother tongue use in the classroom. A meeting was requested with the group with the assumption that a less threatening space might open up a healthy exchange between the programme facilitators and the teacher participants. Using the group meeting and the individual members' written responses to multilingual issues, this chapter frames silence as agency in terms of the group's accounting of their own experience with mother tongues in the classroom which they describe as super-diverse, with multiple mother tongues competing for power in teaching and learning. The collective silence (or unresponsiveness) took the form of resistance under conditions of unequal power structures where teacher participants saw it difficult to counter prevalent ideas about mother tongue use during training programme.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | Conflict Politics as Developmentalism |
| ISBN: | 0367244241 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780367244248 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.432... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author-accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | silence; agency; multilingual education; teacher training |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Development Planning Unit |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10218523 |
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