<div dir="ltr"><h1 id="gmail-title" class="gmail-a-spacing-none gmail-a-text-normal" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;margin:0px;line-height:36px;color:rgb(15,17,17)"><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:small;font-weight:normal">I thought that this book may be informative to some members of the EDLING community.</span></h1><h1 id="gmail-title" class="gmail-a-spacing-none gmail-a-text-normal" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;margin:0px;line-height:36px;color:rgb(15,17,17)"><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:small;font-weight:normal"><i>The Languaging of Higher Education in the Global South  (by Makoni et al., 2022)</i></span><br></h1><div><div aria-expanded="true" class="gmail-a-expander-content gmail-a-expander-partial-collapse-content gmail-a-expander-content-expanded" style="box-sizing:border-box;overflow:hidden;color:rgb(15,17,17);font-family:"Amazon Ember",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;padding-bottom:20px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 14px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">By foregrounding language practices in educational settings, this timely volume offers a postcolonial critique of the languaging of higher education and considers how Southern Epistemologies can be used to further the decolonization of post-secondary education in the Global South.</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px"></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Offering a range of contributions from diverse and minoritized scholars based in countries including South Africa, Rwanda, Sudan, Qatar, Turkey, Portugal, Sweden, India and Brazil, </span><span class="gmail-a-text-italic" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:italic">The Languaging of Higher Education in the Global South</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box"> problematizes the use of language in various areas of higher education. Chapters demonstrate both subtle and explicit ways in which the language of pedagogy, scholarship, policy, and partcipiation endorse and privelege Western constructs and knowledge production, and utilize Southern theories and epistemologies to offer an alternative ways forward – practice and research which applies and promotes Southern epistemologies and local knowledges. The volume confronts issues including integrationism, epistemic solidarity, language policy and ideology, multilingualism, and the increasing use of technology in institutions of higher education.</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">This innovative book will be of interest to researchers, scholars, and postgraduate students in the fields of higher education, applied linguistics, and multicultural education. Those with an interest in the decolonization of education and language will find the book of particular use.</span></p></div></div><div><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Languaging-Higher-Education-Global-Colonizing/dp/0367686538/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3KXEGCXK3YND3&keywords=languaging+in+higher+education&qid=1644933428&sprefix=languaging+in+higher+education%2Caps%2C39&sr=8-3">https://www.amazon.com/Languaging-Higher-Education-Global-Colonizing/dp/0367686538/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3KXEGCXK3YND3&keywords=languaging+in+higher+education&qid=1644933428&sprefix=languaging+in+higher+education%2Caps%2C39&sr=8-3</a><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>David M. Balosa, Ph.D. <span style="font-size:12.8px">    </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Language, Literacy, & Culture       </span></div><div>Interculturality GSO President 2012-2013</div><div>*University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)<br></div><div>**1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250*<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://llc.umbc.edu/home/news-events/?id=56945" target="_blank">https://llc.umbc.edu/home/news-events/?id=56945</a></div><div><a href="https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/tag/david-balosa/" target="_blank">https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/tag/david-balosa/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>The world would be a better place if we all strive for existential unity: communities' prosperity, social justice, peace, faith, global solidarity and diversity, human rights, and human dignity for all. -David Balosa</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>