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Adult Education Amidst Dual Pandemics: Community College Survival, Wendy Nicholson, Tameka S. Battle
Adult Education Amidst Dual Pandemics: Community College Survival, Wendy Nicholson, Tameka S. Battle
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This article examines how adult educators at an urban community college, cope with and persist in the face of dual pandemics: COVID-19 and systemic racism. It delves into the requirements they faced turning in-person instruction to distance learning platforms at a moment’s notice, how they dealt with claims of racial disparity in doing so, and how the resurgence of racial unrest across the country challenged not only their own values and beliefs but how these events impacted their ability to teach and interact with their diverse students. The article also examines the instructors' ability to maintain their own wellbeing amidst …
‘The Good English’: The Ideological Construction Of The Target Language In Adult Esol, Kelsey Swift
‘The Good English’: The Ideological Construction Of The Target Language In Adult Esol, Kelsey Swift
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This project problematizes hegemonic conceptions of language by looking at the construction of ‘English’ in a nonprofit, community-based adult ESOL program in New York. I use ethnographic observation and interviews to uncover the discursive and pedagogical practices that uphold these hegemonic conceptions in this context. I find that the structural conditions of the program perpetuate a conception of ‘English’ shaped by linguistic racism and classism, despite the program’s progressive ideals. Linguistic authority is centralized through the presentation of a closed linguistic system and a focus on replication of templatic language. This allows for the drawing of linguistic borders by pathologizing …