Abstract

MARQUES BEATO-CANATO, Ana Paula; BACK, Rogério; LOPES CRISTOVAO, Vera Lúcia  and  KRACKER FRANCESCON, Paula. Voices from the Aboriginals: A Response from the South Aimed at Southing Language Education. Íkala [online]. 2022, vol.27, n.3, pp.744-762.  Epub Dec 09, 2022. ISSN 0123-3432.  https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.v27n3a09.

Teaching-learning languages can be a means to keep hierarchies and erasures while promoting supporting and problematizing settings. At the same time, the production of teaching materials helping indigenous subjectivities and wisdoms to overcome the walls of educational institutions can be considered as a highly significant process, with the potential to help join articulaTED social forces and movements aiming to change the abovementioned reality. Drawing on this assumption, our aim is to analyse how aboriginal peoples and indigenous literatures are addressed in a volume of a teachers’ collection titled Critical Education Routes For English Teachers, to discuss its potential to southing language education, and to delve into the analysis of notions about language, identities and literatures informing the textbooks. Besides, we assess the depth of discussions brought about and the potential (re)production of derogatory repertoires, as well as unique narratives about aboriginal peoples. We understand the teaching material provides an innovating proposal bringing the possibility to contribute to training socially engaged teachers, and aware to different identities, wisdoms, cultures, and epistemologies. Thus, it is noteworthy that, even though the material has not been designed based on decolonial tenets, it becomes a response from the South devoTED to teaching education looking to promote a critical approach and engaged with social issues. Those proposals involve broadening movements to identify, claiming and disrupting colonial hierarchizations, invisibilites, and unfeasibilites that have become part of ourselves, thus helping to build realities otherwise.

Keywords : language education; teaching education; invitation to southing; indigenous literatures; (de)coloniality; resistance.