What do I mean when I talk about decolonizing language education?
Channel: ¡Multilingual Futures! (Anke al-Bataineh, PhD)
Date: 20/08/2020

I have a forthcoming chapter about this, but basically, a decolonial approach to education is one in which:
-The student has control over most of what they learn, when they learn it, how they learn it, and they learn it because they see its importance in their life
- Students work together and learning happens both within a community and in service of a community that has meaningful ties 
- Language loss  is recognized as a result of oppression, and of language maintenance or revitalization as an act of resistance to power
- Learning happens within democratic systems in which students are empowered throughout their language learning journey, and of which the explicit goal is a pluralist vision of society
-Language norms and practices are approached more descriptively than prescriptively and situates the language’s users, and especially its young users, as experts in its use
- Transgression of boundaries and hybridity are embraced as steps toward pluralism, including hybrid language practices such as translanguaging and multiliteracies
- Proficiency assessment centers skills in use rather than conformity to prescribed norms, 
- White supremacy and social dominance of certain cultural and linguistic groups are fundamentally questioned

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