Norbella Miranda
Biographic Data
| ID | 4621502 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Norbella Miranda |
| GIVEN NAMES | Norbella |
| FAMILY NAME | Miranda |
| SIGNATURE | MIRANDA N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad del Valle |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4758-7155 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
English and global citizenship education
This study critically examines the intersection of English language teaching (ELT) and global citizenship education (GCE) in higher education (HE) through data from state-funded universities in the Global South (Colombia, Iraq, Thailand, and Vietnam). It examines how students, educators, and administrators perceive and engage with global and intercultural citizenship through the medium of English. Data were collected through 126 semi-structured i…
Decolonizing ELT practices and policies in higher education
Decolonizing English in Higher Education
English is core to HE (higher education) globally, with both HE and English seen as pathways to success for students. Yet, access to English is unequal and colonial ideologies associate English with Anglophone settings. Much of the research on English in HE has focused on elite institutions and students, while the majority of the world's HE students remain comparatively under‐researched. This paper reports on a mixed‐methods study of TESOL in fiv…
Multilingual Policies and Practices in Higher Education
In the last two decades, foreign language policies in Colombia have prioritized English across the education system, aiming for international competitiveness and educational quality. These policies have sparked concerns among educators, including language stratification, commodification of English for the privileged, adoption of foreign benchmarks, insufficient policy implementation, and limitations of the English-Spanish bilingual model compared…
Indigenous students’ agency vis-à-vis the practices of recognition and invisibilization in a multilingual university
This study addresses the role of Indigenous students in higher education regarding the practices of recognition and invisibilization of linguistic, ontological, and epistemic identities. We focus on a Colombian university and examine how Indigenous students contest and reshape the legacies of coloniality that permeate cultural, academic, and organizational practices. We draw on principles of a critical intercultural view in combination with eleme…
Language Education in Multilingual Colombia
Unsettling the ‘Challenge’
This article examines the ideologies present in Colombian official policy for English language teaching (ELT) and traces the links between governmental planning for state-funded schools and school pedagogical practices. Building on analysis of interviews with policy agents, policymakers’ pronouncements, documents and classroom observations, the article contends that instead of working towards educational equity, official policy actions are creati…
Conflicting views on language policy and planning at a Colombian university
The current internationalization trends in higher education and educational language policies impel universities to plan their provision of foreign languages. Often, universities are developing language policies, redesigning their foreign language programs and seeking to foster bilingual or multilingual strategies within graduate and undergraduate programs in order to respond to these trends and to students’ new needs for a solid education in an …
School Administration in the Implementation of the Bilingual Colombia Program in Private Educational Institutions in Cali (Colombia)
This text aims to describe and analyze the management performed by school administrators for the implementation of the Bilingual Colombia Program (BCP) in private educational institutions of monolingual tradition located in strata 1 to 4 in Cali (Colombia). For this, we carried out a descriptive research which, through statistics and correlation, incorporated quantitative and qualitative interpretation of the information contained in surveys, the…
Decolonizing English in Higher Education
English is core to HE (higher education) globally, with both HE and English seen as pathways to success for students. Yet, access to English is unequal and colonial ideologies associate English with Anglophone settings. Much of the research on English in HE has focused on elite institutions and students, while the majority of the world's HE students remain comparatively under‐researched. This paper reports on a mixed‐methods study of TESOL in fiv…
Conflicting views on language policy and planning at a Colombian university
The current internationalization trends in higher education and educational language policies impel universities to plan their provision of foreign languages. Often, universities are developing language policies, redesigning their foreign language programs and seeking to foster bilingual or multilingual strategies within graduate and undergraduate programs in order to respond to these trends and to students’ new needs for a solid education in an …
School Administration in the Implementation of the Bilingual Colombia Program in Private Educational Institutions in Cali (Colombia)
This text aims to describe and analyze the management performed by school administrators for the implementation of the Bilingual Colombia Program (BCP) in private educational institutions of monolingual tradition located in strata 1 to 4 in Cali (Colombia). For this, we carried out a descriptive research which, through statistics and correlation, incorporated quantitative and qualitative interpretation of the information contained in surveys, the…
School Administration in the Implementation of the Bilingual Colombia Program in Private Educational Institutions in Cali (Colombia)
This text aims to describe and analyze the management performed by school administrators for the implementation of the Bilingual Colombia Program (BCP) in private educational institutions of monolingual tradition located in strata 1 to 4 in Cali (Colombia). For this, we carried out a descriptive research which, through statistics and correlation, incorporated quantitative and qualitative interpretation of the information contained in surveys, the…
Conflicting views on language policy and planning at a Colombian university
The current internationalization trends in higher education and educational language policies impel universities to plan their provision of foreign languages. Often, universities are developing language policies, redesigning their foreign language programs and seeking to foster bilingual or multilingual strategies within graduate and undergraduate programs in order to respond to these trends and to students’ new needs for a solid education in an …
Unsettling the ‘Challenge’
This article examines the ideologies present in Colombian official policy for English language teaching (ELT) and traces the links between governmental planning for state-funded schools and school pedagogical practices. Building on analysis of interviews with policy agents, policymakers’ pronouncements, documents and classroom observations, the article contends that instead of working towards educational equity, official policy actions are creati…
Indigenous students’ agency vis-à-vis the practices of recognition and invisibilization in a multilingual university
This study addresses the role of Indigenous students in higher education regarding the practices of recognition and invisibilization of linguistic, ontological, and epistemic identities. We focus on a Colombian university and examine how Indigenous students contest and reshape the legacies of coloniality that permeate cultural, academic, and organizational practices. We draw on principles of a critical intercultural view in combination with eleme…
Language Education in Multilingual Colombia
Multilingual Policies and Practices in Higher Education
In the last two decades, foreign language policies in Colombia have prioritized English across the education system, aiming for international competitiveness and educational quality. These policies have sparked concerns among educators, including language stratification, commodification of English for the privileged, adoption of foreign benchmarks, insufficient policy implementation, and limitations of the English-Spanish bilingual model compared…
Decolonizing ELT practices and policies in higher education
Decolonizing English in Higher Education
English is core to HE (higher education) globally, with both HE and English seen as pathways to success for students. Yet, access to English is unequal and colonial ideologies associate English with Anglophone settings. Much of the research on English in HE has focused on elite institutions and students, while the majority of the world's HE students remain comparatively under‐researched. This paper reports on a mixed‐methods study of TESOL in fiv…
English and global citizenship education
This study critically examines the intersection of English language teaching (ELT) and global citizenship education (GCE) in higher education (HE) through data from state-funded universities in the Global South (Colombia, Iraq, Thailand, and Vietnam). It examines how students, educators, and administrators perceive and engage with global and intercultural citizenship through the medium of English. Data were collected through 126 semi-structured i…
Multilingual Education and Policy (7 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Higher education (4 works) · Language policy (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Multilingualism (3 works) · Politics (3 works)