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- Title
Expectations and Future Prospects: The Language of the Cosmopolitan Child.
- Authors
Rajander, Silja; Lappalainen, Sirpa
- Abstract
In this article, we explore the ways in which English language learning participates in constructing expectations of success and failure. Drawing on our ethnographic studies, one of a preschool and one of a primary school in Finland, we analyse how constructions of nationed, ethnicised differences intersect with the idealisation of particular children as able and confident in English language learning contexts. In particular, we pay attention to how children, teachers and parents resist and appropriate categorisations. Our analysis is informed by feminist post-structural theorizing that aims to deconstruct the discursive practices that shape society and the processes of subjectification.
- Subjects
FINLAND; ENGLISH language; SCHOOL children; ETHNOLOGY; PRIMARY school teaching; LANGUAGE &; languages
- Publication
Finnish Journal of Ethnicity & Migration, 2010, Vol 5, Issue 3, p9
- ISSN
1796-6582
- Publication type
Article