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Date: ma 1. helmik. 2021 klo 14.59
Subject: [Kieliverkosto] Language Education for Social Justice - New call
for presentations
To: kieliverkosto at lists.jyu.fi <kieliverkosto at lists.jyu.fi>

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*Language Education for Social Justice - New call for presentations*

The Language Education for Social Justice Conference will take place
completely online on June 1-3, 2021. Because we had to postpone our event
due to the pandemic, we are opening one extra call for those who would like
to join the conference as presenters but were unable to respond to the
previous calls.

Submissions now open:
https://congress.cc.jyu.fi/socialjustice2020/cgi-bin/contact.cgi

Deadline: March 1, 2021

*What does social justice have to do with language education? Why do we
need to talk about social justice as language teachers, teacher educators,
and researchers?  *

Nordic countries are often associated with social welfare and strive for
egalitarianism. However, linguistic injustice prevail also there, and not
all languages and linguistic practices are equal and associated with the
same opportunities and privileges in and beyond educational contexts. In
addition, linguistic injustices are never just about language. Factors such
as race, ethnicity, gender, social class, ability, and sexual orientation
are intrinsically linked to language and shape local, national, and
international language attitudes, ideologies, and policies. What can
researchers and educators do in order to take steps towards a more just
field of language education? If the goal of education is to diminish social
inequalities and support students in becoming socially conscious, critical,
and engaged members of society, what kind of resources, skills, and teacher
support is needed to achieve this?

Social justice is not something that can be brought about by an individual,
it needs a community, a movement, institutions, and gatherings like this
conference. This year, we particularly invite teachers, teacher educators,
and researchers interested in language and education to join us in thinking
about how to improve language education for all. We hope that as part of
this conference, we will discuss questions including but not limited to:

-        How can language education be a space where students and teachers
learn together to see and challenge existing patterns of privilege and
injustice?

-        What is needed to support teachers in promoting linguistic and
cultural equity and equip them to support each other in
developing/implementing respective pedagogies?

-        How can research look at and beyond language in education with the
goal of being a catalyst for critical thinking, democracy, equity, and
peace?

-        How can language education and research support, respect, and
better understand each other with the goal of making language education
more equal and accessible for all learners?

-        How can both education and research turn a critical eye on
themselves to recognize their complicity in perpetuating injustices and
learn to do better?

*Keynote speakers*

Aminkeng A. Alemanji, University of Helsinki

https://www.helsinki.fi/en/people/people-finder/alemanji-aminkeng-atabong-9132300

Venla Bernelius, University of Helsinki

https://www.helsinki.fi/en/helsinki-institute-of-urban-and-regional-studies/venla-bernelius

Mel Engman, Queen’s University Belfast

http://pure.qup.ac.uk/en/persons/mel-engman

Lou Harvey, University of Leeds

https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/education/staff/137/dr-lou-harvey

Birgül Yilmaz, University College London

https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=BYILM17

*Invited workshops *

In addition to keynotes, we are organising workshops with invited
researchers and practitioners. Two of them will be offered by Jenni
Alisaari (University of Turku), Jessica Bradley (University of Sheffield)
and Tamás Peter Szabó & Petteri Laihonen (University of Jyväskylä).

*Submissions *

We warmly invite teachers, researchers, teacher educators, students, and
everyone interested in language education for social justice to submit
their proposals. We particularly encourage teachers to submit their
contributions of classroom-, school-based, academic and otherwise
teaching/learning-related work. Topics can address the conference topic in
a multiplicity of ways, for instance as introduction of an urgent
issue/question, as project idea or report, as story about school life and
experiences, personal review of teaching and learning materials, or
observations and opinions about recent developments in schools and
education.

We hope for submissions in a variety of formats, and welcome multimodal
and/or multilingual submissions:

-        Workshops and colloquia (2h) for practitioners and/or researchers

-        Multimodal formats such as performances and visual representations
(e.g., vimeos ...) (30 min)

-        Short speeches and rants (e.g. speaker’s corner, TED-like talks …)
(5 min)

-        Papers (30 min)

Please submit a 300-word description of your planned contribution,
including the following information:

-        What is your topic and how does it relate to the conference theme?

-        What is the aim of your contribution?

-        Who do you hope to be your audience (e.g., teachers, researchers
…)?

*Conference fees*

Registration opens in February.

Early bird, regular: 60€ (by 15.4.)

Early bird, student: 40€ (by 15.4.)

Regular: 80€  (by 15.5.)

Regular, student: 50€ by (15.5.)

Deadline for presenters (by 15.4.)

Teachers’ day: 10€ (only valid for teachers on one conference day), by 15.5.

Submission link:
https://congress.cc.jyu.fi/socialjustice2020/cgi-bin/contact.cgi

Conference website: http://www.jyu.fi/socialjustice2020

Inquiries: socialjustice at jyu.fi

JY. JUST ADD U.

Sari Pöyhönen (she, her)

Professor, deputy head of department (research)

University of Jyväskylä (JYU)

Centre for Applied Language Studies

Finland

https://www.jyu.fi/hytk/fi/laitokset/solki/henkilokunta/henkilokunta/poyhonen-sari

orcid.org/0000-0003-1507-7206

Twitter: saripoyhonen

*Forthcoming conference*: Language Education For Social
Justice/Kielikoulutus ja sosiaalinen oikeudenmukaisuus June 1-3, 2021,
registration starts in February. Read more:
https://sites.google.com/jyu.fi/lang-education-social-justice/home

Pöyhönen, S., Simpson, J. (2020). Contesting language policy for asylum
seekers in the Northern periphery: the story of Tailor F. *Language Policy*.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10993-020-09554-0

Hiltunen, Kaisa; Sääskilahti, Nina; Vallius, Antti; Pöyhönen, Sari; Jäntti,
Saara & Saresma, Tuija (2020). Anchoring Belonging Through Material
Practices in Participatory Arts-Based Research [75 paragraphs]. Forum
Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 21(2),
Art. 25, http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-21.2.3403.

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