Building participatory video projects for multilingual schoolscapes
Szabó, T. P., & Laihonen, P. (2024). Building participatory video projects for multilingual schoolscapes. International Journal of Multilingualism, Early online. https://doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2024.2312890
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2024Discipline
Vieraat kieletSoveltava kielentutkimusMonilukutaito oppimisessa ja yhteiskunnallisessa osallisuudessaForeign LanguagesApplied language studiesMultiliteracies for social participation and in learning across the life spanCopyright
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Educational actions that establish connections between language, culture, and power construct ideologies of languages and their speakers. The study of linguistic landscapes in education (i.e. schoolscapes) offers a lens to analyse the material manifestation of such ideologies. As a venture in participatory research, this paper investigates how young learners construct and represent their schoolscapes while documenting and interpreting them in video projects. We bring data from projects carried out with the Moldavian Csángó in Romania as well as Finnish and Swedish speaking Finns in Finland. In both cases, young people learning in multilingual educational contexts were engaged in video projects. In this way, the authors have introduced participants’ self-recorded videos to their research practice to gain materials which are less influenced by researchers. We present examples of traditional, i.e. one-angle-at-a-time and 360° videography projects and discuss their suitability for collaborative projects that investigate multilingual practices, including the use of minoritised languages. The qualitative analysis of grassroots literacy and oral interaction in the videos indicates that participatory projects offer considerable advances to schoolscape research in collaboratively studying the moment-to-moment nature of language practices and the related language ideologies in and across multilingual spaces.
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Szabó’s work was supported by the Society of Swedish Literature in Finland. Laihonen’s work was supported by the Academy of Finland under Grant 299133.License
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