William M Sughrua
Biographic Data
| ID | 243815 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William M Sughrua |
| GIVEN NAMES | William M |
| FAMILY NAME | Sughrua |
| SIGNATURE | SUGHRUA W M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Benito Juárez Autonomous University of Oaxaca |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6567-7483 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The journey of a critical-oriented ELT curriculum and the identities of teacher educators
The field of second language teacher education has recently focused on issues of social justice through different interventions in language teaching preparation programmes and the analysis of the identity formation of pre-service and in-service language teachers. However, little is known about the identities of teacher educators in second language teacher education programmes. This article, adopting a social justice and critical perspective, retr…
Mexican student-teachers’ “English” language praxicum
Las Del Istmo Son Muy Cabronas ”
Language teaching preparation programs in Mexico have been part of the modernity/coloniality legacy favoring so-called “modern” languages (e.g., English and French) over Indigenous languages. The alleged neoliberal benefits these languages bring and their connection to “modernized” individuals and cultures overshadows the learning of Indigenous languages, whose speakers struggle with the colonial difference, the discourse that transforms othernes…
The Core of Critical Performative Autoethnography
Taking its cues from, and lending support to, the assertion in the autoethnographic literature that performative autoethnography (PA) is "moral" and "democratic" in its critical engagement, this article theoretically constructs the concepts "moral" and "democratic" in the context of PA. It does this by intersecting the performative theory of Conquergood with the moral philosophy of Dewey and the paradigmatic theory of Adorno, while including an e…
A Nomenclature for Critical Autoethnography in the Arena of Disciplinary Atomization
This article proposes the nomenclatural shifting of 'evocative' autoethnography (EVAT) from its apparent current position as a co-type of autoethnography to a lead or superordinate type of evocative-like autoethnography, with the suggested name of 'critically-oriented evocative autoethnography as a methodology without methods and situated within critical qualitative inquiry' (CEAM-CQI). In this lead position, EVAT as CEAM-CQI could maintain a uni…
Heightened Performative Autoethnography
Social Class in English Language Education in Oaxaca, Mexico
This article explores social class in English-language education in Oaxaca, Mexico. To this end, first, we discuss social class in Mexico as related to coloniality; second, for illustration, the paper presents the authors’ own social-class analysis as language educators in Oaxaca; third, we discuss how social class impacts English education access, Mexican teachers of English, and the curriculum; and finally, we offer conclusions related to the p…
In pursuit of multilingual practices
Within the context of Oaxaca, Mexico, home to 16 officially recognised indigenous languages, Spanish and English, this paper presents results of an ongoing critical-ethnographic-action-research project in two different sites: one in a semi-urban setting and the other in a rural community. This paper uses multimodal texts (photos and videos) and narratives to present ethnographic portraits of Mexican indigenous and mestizo children from Oaxaca. Ba…
Can I Have a Voice in the Nation's Classroom
This article utilizes a reflexive ethnographic approach in the form of a "layered text" consisting of academic argument, literary criticism, biography, autobiography, and fiction. The dimension of academic argument involves "critical applied linguistics"; the dimension of literary criticism, Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Algren's The Man with the Golden Arm, Blake's "The Tyger," and Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"; the dimension of bio…
The Pretender
Following 'reflexive ethnography' and using a 'layered narrative' of autobiography, academic argument, exposition, and fictionalization set within the 'story' of the author as 'I' and a group of childhood friends on a summer night, this text challenges the apparent hegemony of mainstream academic writing of applied linguistics and poses alternative forms of writing. This theme is 'performed' rather than 'explained.' Consequently, the text engages…
The Las Vegas Thesis
Following "reflexive ethnography" and utilizing an approach of "performative narrative" and "layered text", this article explores how Bachelor of Arts students in the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language program at a public university in Mexico successfully manage the writing of an inductive-oriented thesis in English by resisting bibliographic research. This becomes the theme that is "enacted" or "dramaticized" through a crossover narrative…
Social Class in English Language Education in Oaxaca, Mexico
This article explores social class in English-language education in Oaxaca, Mexico. To this end, first, we discuss social class in Mexico as related to coloniality; second, for illustration, the paper presents the authors’ own social-class analysis as language educators in Oaxaca; third, we discuss how social class impacts English education access, Mexican teachers of English, and the curriculum; and finally, we offer conclusions related to the p…
Las Del Istmo Son Muy Cabronas ”
Language teaching preparation programs in Mexico have been part of the modernity/coloniality legacy favoring so-called “modern” languages (e.g., English and French) over Indigenous languages. The alleged neoliberal benefits these languages bring and their connection to “modernized” individuals and cultures overshadows the learning of Indigenous languages, whose speakers struggle with the colonial difference, the discourse that transforms othernes…
The Core of Critical Performative Autoethnography
Taking its cues from, and lending support to, the assertion in the autoethnographic literature that performative autoethnography (PA) is "moral" and "democratic" in its critical engagement, this article theoretically constructs the concepts "moral" and "democratic" in the context of PA. It does this by intersecting the performative theory of Conquergood with the moral philosophy of Dewey and the paradigmatic theory of Adorno, while including an e…
In pursuit of multilingual practices
Within the context of Oaxaca, Mexico, home to 16 officially recognised indigenous languages, Spanish and English, this paper presents results of an ongoing critical-ethnographic-action-research project in two different sites: one in a semi-urban setting and the other in a rural community. This paper uses multimodal texts (photos and videos) and narratives to present ethnographic portraits of Mexican indigenous and mestizo children from Oaxaca. Ba…
The Pretender
Following 'reflexive ethnography' and using a 'layered narrative' of autobiography, academic argument, exposition, and fictionalization set within the 'story' of the author as 'I' and a group of childhood friends on a summer night, this text challenges the apparent hegemony of mainstream academic writing of applied linguistics and poses alternative forms of writing. This theme is 'performed' rather than 'explained.' Consequently, the text engages…
The Las Vegas Thesis
Following "reflexive ethnography" and utilizing an approach of "performative narrative" and "layered text", this article explores how Bachelor of Arts students in the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language program at a public university in Mexico successfully manage the writing of an inductive-oriented thesis in English by resisting bibliographic research. This becomes the theme that is "enacted" or "dramaticized" through a crossover narrative…
The Pretender
Following 'reflexive ethnography' and using a 'layered narrative' of autobiography, academic argument, exposition, and fictionalization set within the 'story' of the author as 'I' and a group of childhood friends on a summer night, this text challenges the apparent hegemony of mainstream academic writing of applied linguistics and poses alternative forms of writing. This theme is 'performed' rather than 'explained.' Consequently, the text engages…
In pursuit of multilingual practices
Within the context of Oaxaca, Mexico, home to 16 officially recognised indigenous languages, Spanish and English, this paper presents results of an ongoing critical-ethnographic-action-research project in two different sites: one in a semi-urban setting and the other in a rural community. This paper uses multimodal texts (photos and videos) and narratives to present ethnographic portraits of Mexican indigenous and mestizo children from Oaxaca. Ba…
Can I Have a Voice in the Nation's Classroom
This article utilizes a reflexive ethnographic approach in the form of a "layered text" consisting of academic argument, literary criticism, biography, autobiography, and fiction. The dimension of academic argument involves "critical applied linguistics"; the dimension of literary criticism, Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Algren's The Man with the Golden Arm, Blake's "The Tyger," and Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"; the dimension of bio…
Social Class in English Language Education in Oaxaca, Mexico
This article explores social class in English-language education in Oaxaca, Mexico. To this end, first, we discuss social class in Mexico as related to coloniality; second, for illustration, the paper presents the authors’ own social-class analysis as language educators in Oaxaca; third, we discuss how social class impacts English education access, Mexican teachers of English, and the curriculum; and finally, we offer conclusions related to the p…
Heightened Performative Autoethnography
A Nomenclature for Critical Autoethnography in the Arena of Disciplinary Atomization
This article proposes the nomenclatural shifting of 'evocative' autoethnography (EVAT) from its apparent current position as a co-type of autoethnography to a lead or superordinate type of evocative-like autoethnography, with the suggested name of 'critically-oriented evocative autoethnography as a methodology without methods and situated within critical qualitative inquiry' (CEAM-CQI). In this lead position, EVAT as CEAM-CQI could maintain a uni…
The Core of Critical Performative Autoethnography
Taking its cues from, and lending support to, the assertion in the autoethnographic literature that performative autoethnography (PA) is "moral" and "democratic" in its critical engagement, this article theoretically constructs the concepts "moral" and "democratic" in the context of PA. It does this by intersecting the performative theory of Conquergood with the moral philosophy of Dewey and the paradigmatic theory of Adorno, while including an e…
Las Del Istmo Son Muy Cabronas ”
Language teaching preparation programs in Mexico have been part of the modernity/coloniality legacy favoring so-called “modern” languages (e.g., English and French) over Indigenous languages. The alleged neoliberal benefits these languages bring and their connection to “modernized” individuals and cultures overshadows the learning of Indigenous languages, whose speakers struggle with the colonial difference, the discourse that transforms othernes…
Mexican student-teachers’ “English” language praxicum
The journey of a critical-oriented ELT curriculum and the identities of teacher educators
The field of second language teacher education has recently focused on issues of social justice through different interventions in language teaching preparation programmes and the analysis of the identity formation of pre-service and in-service language teachers. However, little is known about the identities of teacher educators in second language teacher education programmes. This article, adopting a social justice and critical perspective, retr…
Sociology (11 works) · Anthropology (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Ethnography (6 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (6 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · Autoethnography (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)