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Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education

Multicultural

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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Decolonial Multiculturalism And Local-Global Contexts: A Postcritical Feminist Bricolage For Developing New Praxes In Education, Katharine Matthaei Sprecher Aug 2011

Decolonial Multiculturalism And Local-Global Contexts: A Postcritical Feminist Bricolage For Developing New Praxes In Education, Katharine Matthaei Sprecher

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation presents a conceptual bricolage that explores complex, reflexive, and interrelated dimensions of educational praxes. My work is grounded in the assertion that the ever-changing, local-global nature of contemporary societies requires new approaches to curricula, pedagogies, policies, and practices in U.S. schools to meet the challenges and opportunities of a global era. Presenting my research and findings as four articles, I begin with a dialectical analysis of theoretical and pedagogical literatures to develop an adaptable framework for decolonial multicultural education. In Article 1, I demonstrate how this framework synergizes aspects of social reconstructionist and critical multicultural, global, and …


Crossing Borders In La Cocina: Constructing A Bilingual Community-Based Culinary Guide For A Healthier Tomorrow In Knoxville's Lonsdale Community, Erin M. Groh May 2011

Crossing Borders In La Cocina: Constructing A Bilingual Community-Based Culinary Guide For A Healthier Tomorrow In Knoxville's Lonsdale Community, Erin M. Groh

Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects

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