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Host/Producer:
Yecid Ortega is an avid interest in social justice and anti-racism theory in language education.
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Melissa Carter is a Masters student at OISE who is interested in learning about how education and gender intersect. She teaches at secondary school, usually Core French. She likes walking, travelling, reading, and sharing a chat over a hot chocolate.
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Welcome to Chasing Encounters, a podcast where we share stories that connect us, enlighten us, and encourage us to move forward. e encounter people from all walks of life, mainly BIPOC, people with disabilities and those in the LGBTQ+ community. At the heart of our conversations are language, culture, and identity, but most importantly, how these various encounters meet and intersect.
Join the conversation!
Support this podcast by commenting and sharing. Twitter: @chasenpodcast
*
Host/Producer:
Yecid Ortega is an avid interest in social justice and anti-racism theory in language education.
*
Volunteer:
Melissa Carter is a Masters student at OISE who is interested in learning about how education and gender intersect. She teaches at secondary school, usually Core French. She likes walking, travelling, reading, and sharing a chat over a hot chocolate.
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CES5E1-From critical education to decolonial praxis
Chasing Encounters
43 minutes 59 seconds
4 years ago
CES5E1-From critical education to decolonial praxis
In today’s podcast, we have Yecid Ortega from the University of Toronto. He sees himself as a citizen of the world, and his work certainly reflects an international perspective to education and research. With a very marginalized background, he studied primary and secondary education in public schools and got interested in learning languages to understand the world. He tells the story of his life from poverty in Colombia, to working in the USA and to becoming a Canadian citizen. From a very young age, Yecid knew education was key to engage with communities and move socially. He noticed the idea of English as a symbol of power and has worked vigorously to dismantle it through critical education. His epistemological vision is engaged in a future of decolonial praxis in which educators, researchers and stakeholders work towards a better future for humanity.
*Biography:
Yecid Ortega is a Ph.D. candidate in the program of Language and Literacies Education (LLE) and the specialization program in Comparative International, and Development Education (CIDE) at OISE – University of Toronto, Canada. His general research interests are within decolonial critical ethnographic and case study approaches to research. Yecid explores how globalization, capitalism and neoliberalism influence language policy decision-making processes and their effects on classroom practices and students’ lived experiences.
*Cite this podcast (APA):
Ortega, Y. (Producer). (2021, January 13). CES5E1 – From critical education to decolonial praxis. https://soundcloud.com/chasingencounters/ces5e1-from-critical-education-to-decolonial-praxis
*Sources:
Ortega, Y. (2020). “Rebeldes en acción”: A case study in English teaching in a marginalized Colombian high school. In L. M. Berger (Ed.), Social justice and international education: Research, practice, and perspectives (pp. 111–134). NAFSA: Association of International Educators.
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Coelho, D & Ortega, Y. (2020). Pluralistic approaches in early language education: shifting paradigms in language didactics. In S.M. Lau & S. Van Viegen (Eds.), Plurilingual pedagogies: Critical and creative endeavors for equitable language in education. (pp. 145-160).Taylor Francis.
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Ortega, Y. (2019). “Teacher, ¿Puedo hablar en Español?” A reflection on plurilingualism and translanguaging
Chasing Encounters
Welcome to Chasing Encounters, a podcast where we share stories that connect us, enlighten us, and encourage us to move forward. e encounter people from all walks of life, mainly BIPOC, people with disabilities and those in the LGBTQ+ community. At the heart of our conversations are language, culture, and identity, but most importantly, how these various encounters meet and intersect.
Join the conversation!
Support this podcast by commenting and sharing. Twitter: @chasenpodcast
*
Host/Producer:
Yecid Ortega is an avid interest in social justice and anti-racism theory in language education.
*
Volunteer:
Melissa Carter is a Masters student at OISE who is interested in learning about how education and gender intersect. She teaches at secondary school, usually Core French. She likes walking, travelling, reading, and sharing a chat over a hot chocolate.
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