Alumni & Friends

Tuesday, December 1, 3:30pm, Tuttleman 103
Monica Heller, University of Toronto/OISE

Schooling and linguistic diversity: ideologies of education, language and citizenship

Monica Heller is Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto, Canada. Her work focuses on the role of language in the construction of social difference and social inequality in the post-nationalist, globalizing new economy. Her ethnographic, sociolinguistic research mainly examines these processes as they unfold in francophone Canada, but she is also involved in work in these areas conducted in western Europe, and in their relevance for policy in the areas of language and education and training. Her major publications in the field of bilingualism include Code-switching: Anthropological and Sociolinguistic Perspectives (Mouton De Gruyter, 1988); Linguistic Minorities and Modernity: A sociolinguistic ethnography (Longman, 1999); Voices of Authority: Education and Linguistic Difference (co-edited with Marilyn Martin-Jones, Ablex, 2001), Éléments d'une sociolinguistique critique (Paris: Didier, 2002), Discourses of endangerment (co-edited with Alexandre Duchene, Continuum, 2007), and Bilingualism: A social approach (Palgrave, 2007).

Monica Heller, University of Toronto/OISE - Part 1