Towards a Decolonial Language Teacher Education

ABSTRACT In this article, we discuss the challenges of teacher education for the 21stCentury, taking decoloniality as a possible way to resignify our praxis. One of the challenges in decolonial thinking is to problematize the coloniality of knowledge (LANDER, 2005), which is established through the privilege of scientific knowledge and the invisibilization of other forms of knowing. In this respect, Castro-Gomez (2007) affirms that the university is an institution that contributes significantly to the maintenance of this logic. As university teachers directly involved in language teacher education, we have sought different ways to develop our praxis as a decolonial project (WALSH, 2013). In this article, we discuss decoloniality and present three praxes in which our objective was attempting to live language teacher education otherwise.

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Main Authors:	Borelli,Julma Dalva Vilarinho Pereira, Silvestre,Viviane Pires Viana, Pessoa,Rosane Rocha
Format:	Digital revista
Language:	English
Published:	Faculdade de Letras - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais 2020
Online Access:	http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-63982020000200301
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