Basirat Olayemi Bello-Nonjengele
Biographic Data
| ID | 6806065 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Basirat Olayemi Bello-Nonjengele |
| GIVEN NAMES | Basirat Olayemi |
| FAMILY NAME | Bello-Nonjengele |
| SIGNATURE | BELLO-NONJENGELE B O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Western Cape |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4605-4448 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Towards Epistemic Justice
In this study of a postcolonial school, we expand understandings of epistemic justice from the perspective of language, addressing issues of know-ledge, understanding, and participation in communicative practices. We suggest that monoglossic language-in-education policies constitute a form of epistemic injustice by diminishing learners’ ability to make epistemic contributions, a capacity central to human value. We further suggest that translangua…
Game Changers? Multilingual Learners in a Cape Town Primary School
This article engages with Bourdieu’s notion of field as a ‘space of play’ to explore what happens to the educational field and the linguistic regimes operating within it in a site in which new discourses and practices of identity, language, ‘race’, and ethnicity become entangled with local economies of meaning. The context is a primary school in a low-income neighbourhood in Cape Town, South Africa. We draw on multilingual classroom and playgroun…
Style, repertoire, and identities in Zambian multilingual discourses
The paper explores the socially transforming multilingual discourses which draw on rural and urban indigenous Zambian languages, (Zambian) English, and mixed codes. Using illustrations from a Zambian website and related studies on multilingual discourse practices in Zambia, the paper shows how local and diasporic Zambians enact role structures and identities in multilingual discourses. We focus on localized stylization of Zambian discourses, in w…
Style, repertoire, and identities in Zambian multilingual discourses
The paper explores the socially transforming multilingual discourses which draw on rural and urban indigenous Zambian languages, (Zambian) English, and mixed codes. Using illustrations from a Zambian website and related studies on multilingual discourse practices in Zambia, the paper shows how local and diasporic Zambians enact role structures and identities in multilingual discourses. We focus on localized stylization of Zambian discourses, in w…
Style, repertoire, and identities in Zambian multilingual discourses
The paper explores the socially transforming multilingual discourses which draw on rural and urban indigenous Zambian languages, (Zambian) English, and mixed codes. Using illustrations from a Zambian website and related studies on multilingual discourse practices in Zambia, the paper shows how local and diasporic Zambians enact role structures and identities in multilingual discourses. We focus on localized stylization of Zambian discourses, in w…
Game Changers? Multilingual Learners in a Cape Town Primary School
This article engages with Bourdieu’s notion of field as a ‘space of play’ to explore what happens to the educational field and the linguistic regimes operating within it in a site in which new discourses and practices of identity, language, ‘race’, and ethnicity become entangled with local economies of meaning. The context is a primary school in a low-income neighbourhood in Cape Town, South Africa. We draw on multilingual classroom and playgroun…
Towards Epistemic Justice
In this study of a postcolonial school, we expand understandings of epistemic justice from the perspective of language, addressing issues of know-ledge, understanding, and participation in communicative practices. We suggest that monoglossic language-in-education policies constitute a form of epistemic injustice by diminishing learners’ ability to make epistemic contributions, a capacity central to human value. We further suggest that translangua…
EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Multilingualism (2 works) · Pedagogy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (2 works)