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Educational Imperialism: Schooling and Indigenous Identity in Borikén (Puerto Rico)
Dr. Kristine M. Harrison, is currently an honorary postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin and part-time temporary English Instructor at the University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras. This book form of her doctoral work is about a topic to which she is very committed: the effect of schooling and language education policy on children’s identity formation. The book also supports the goals of another of her intellectual and personal commitments, which is to promote alternate, non-western or “indigenous” views of education. Another chapter she wrote is called Peace Instead of Policy: Indigenous and other Autonomous Utopias in Language Education (2016, in press); in the book Language Education Policy and Peace (2016 in press), a current publication she is co-editing with Dr. Francois Tochon. In this chapter she explores alternate visions of what education entails. She published a chapter called Interpreting Language Education Policies: Conceptual, Disciplinary, Indigenous, and Deep Parameters for Multilingual Environments (2015) which is about finding principles that can be used to evaluate language education policy. She has also taught English in the Middle East, North Africa, and Puerto Rico; and theorized the role of English. Her publication on this topic is called A Dialectic Between ELF Policy and EFL Teaching in the Circles of English: The Crossroads for Deeper Chords and Constructs and was presented at an international conference in Istanbul, Turkey.
Her other expertise includes multilingual education policies, the role of pedagogy, and effect on children’s identity. Her latest commitment is to the schooling of Muslim children, in particular those who are refugees of Middle East wars, a project that combines her previous experiences and intellectual work. She has raised four daughters and a son alone, who are incredible, while teaching on three continents. |
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