Translanguaging On and With the Land: Anti-coloniality, (Re)connection and Learning with Refugee Learners

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dc.contributor.advisorTakeuchi, Miwa Aoki
dc.contributor.authorThraya, Sophia
dc.contributor.committeememberEl Halwany, Sarah
dc.contributor.committeememberHanson, Aubrey
dc.date2023-11
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-17T16:54:00Z
dc.date.available2023-07-17T16:54:00Z
dc.date.issued2023-07
dc.description.abstractNon-dominant multilingual learners, particularly those who have experienced forced displacement, are often met by educational environments where deficit discourses, monolingual norms and colonial silencing persist. This work examines how co-learners from refugee backgrounds in a multiyear land-based program, Soil Camp, have co-created spaces to challenge dominant norms, power dynamics and colonial histories. Alongside racialized facilitators, the children co-constructed environments that affirmed their multilingual identities and empowered agency within the teaching and learning spaces—a significant shift away from monolingual norms seen in formal schooling and dominant societal settings. Based on video-based interaction analyses, the findings illustrate the transformative power of translanguaging practices that validate multilingual identities and intergenerational knowledge systems, resulting in the co-creation of new social realities for learning, exhibited in moment-to-moment interactions. This work on earth-centered translanguaging practice seeks to connect to silenced intergenerational and new knowledge beyond named languages while attending to historicity and power, transcending human and more-than-human (MTH) divides. Children provided glimpses of their semiotic repertoires through highlighted child-led moments, which foraged new pathways for embodied representations of community, identity and MTH (re)connection. The result is translanguaging spaces where linguistic fluidity and embodied communicative practices sustain (re)connection on and with the land.
dc.identifier.citationThraya, S. (2023). Translanguaging on and with the land: anti-coloniality, (re)connection and learning with refugee learners (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1880/116739
dc.identifier.urihttps://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/41581
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisher.facultyGraduate Studies
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgary
dc.rightsUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.
dc.subjecttranslanguaging
dc.subjectearth-centered translanguaging
dc.subjectembodied communicative practices
dc.subjectco-constructed learning environments
dc.subjectcommunity, identity and more-than-human (re)connection
dc.subjectforcefuly displaced refugee learners
dc.subjectracialized multilingual teachers
dc.subjectland-based learning
dc.subjectlearning sciences
dc.subjectjustice-oriented design
dc.subjectIndigenous language-land connections
dc.subjectdisplacement, resettlement, geopolitics and histories
dc.subjectstory
dc.subjectSoil Camp
dc.subject.classificationEducation
dc.subject.classificationEducation--Bilingual and Multicultural
dc.subject.classificationLanguage
dc.subject.classificationEducation--Language and Literature
dc.subject.classificationEducation--Sciences
dc.subject.classificationEducation--Curriculum and Instruction
dc.subject.classificationEducation--Teacher Training
dc.subject.classificationEducation--Social Sciences
dc.subject.classificationEducation--Agricultural
dc.titleTranslanguaging On and With the Land: Anti-coloniality, (Re)connection and Learning with Refugee Learners
dc.typemaster thesis
thesis.degree.disciplineEducation Graduate Program – Educational Research
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgary
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts (MA)
ucalgary.thesis.accesssetbystudentI do not require a thesis withhold – my thesis will have open access and can be viewed and downloaded publicly as soon as possible.
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