Takeuchi, Miwa AokiThraya, Sophia2023-07-172023-07-172023-07Thraya, 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.https://hdl.handle.net/1880/116739https://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/41581Non-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.enUniversity 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.translanguagingearth-centered translanguagingembodied communicative practicesco-constructed learning environmentscommunity, identity and more-than-human (re)connectionforcefuly displaced refugee learnersracialized multilingual teachersland-based learninglearning sciencesjustice-oriented designIndigenous language-land connectionsdisplacement, resettlement, geopolitics and historiesstorySoil CampEducationEducation--Bilingual and MulticulturalLanguageEducation--Language and LiteratureEducation--SciencesEducation--Curriculum and InstructionEducation--Teacher TrainingEducation--Social SciencesEducation--Agriculturalmaster thesis