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12.14 Diversity Cafe Vol. 15: From Multiculturalism to Social Justice: Language Education in the United States and Canada 第15回ダイバーシティ・カフェ: 多文化主義から社会正義へ：米国とカナダの言語教育
Event Details
Date/Time: Saturday, December 14, 11:00-12:00 (JST)
Location: Komaba Active Learning Studio (KALS)
Speaker: Ryuko Kubota
Language: English（英語）
Followed by a lunch meeting 12:00-13:00
This is a hybrid event. Seats for in-person participation are limited to 35; first come, first served.
Speaker Bio
Ryuko Kubota 久保田竜子
Ryuko Kubota is a Professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia. Her research draws on critical approaches to language education, focusing on antiracism, intersectional justice, language ideologies, and critical pedagogies. She is a co-editor of Race, culture, and identities in second language: Exploring critically engaged practice (Routledge 2009); Discourses of identity: Language learning, teaching, and reclamation perspectives in Japan (Palgrave 2023); and Race, racism, and antiracism in language education (Routledge 2025), and the author of 『英語教育幻想』(ちくま新書 2018) and others. Her publications have also appeared in such journals as Applied Linguistics, Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, Journal of Second Language Writing, TESOL Quarterly, and World Englishes.
久保田竜子。ブリティッシュコロンビア大学言語・識字教育学部教授。反人種差別、交差的正義、言語イデオロギー、批判的教育法に焦点を当てた研究をしている。『Race, culture, and identities in second language: Exploring critically engaged practice 』、『Discourses of identity: Language learning, teaching, and reclamation perspectives in Japan 』、『Race, racism, and antiracism in language education』の共同編集者、および『英語教育幻想』などの著者。研究論文も、『Applied Linguistics』、『Critical Inquiry in Language Studies』、『Journal of Second Language Writing』、『TESOL Quarterly』、『World Englishes』などの様々な学術雑誌で出版されている。
Learn moreAbstract
Critical approaches to research and practice have increasingly been embraced in the field of language education in North America. This trend is observed in the advocacy for equity, diversity, inclusion, and social justice, which can be viewed as an extension of multicultural education. This talk surveys the trajectory of the discourses of culture and multiculturalism in education in the United States and Canada and discusses its connection to language education. During the last few decades, a shift has been be observed from the dominance of liberal multiculturalism to critical multiculturalism with an increased recognition of racism and power, and toward social justice with a focus on intersectionality. Ongoing challenges include contesting neoliberal forces and conservative politics, contextually understanding the concept of justice, and exercising praxis with concrete action for change.
北米の言語教育の分野では、研究と実践への批判的アプローチが盛んになっています。この傾向は、公平性、多様性、包括性、社会正義の提唱に見られ、多文化教育の延長と見なすことができます。この講演では、米国とカナダの教育における文化と多文化主義の言説の軌跡を概観し、言語教育との関連性について議論します。過去数十年の間に、リベラル多文化主義の支配から、人種差別と権力の認識が高まった批判的多文化主義へのシフト、そしてインターセクショナリティに焦点を当てた社会正義へのシフトが起こりました。現在進行中の課題には、新自由主義勢力と保守的な政治への対抗、正義の概念の文脈理解、変革のための具体的な行動を伴う実践が含まれます。
Contact
gfd-tokyo@adm.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp