1st Edition
Subaltern Linguistics A Toolkit for Alternative Education and Practice
Subaltern Linguistics and Practice challenges the goals and theoretical foundations of colonial linguistics, academia, and education and provides alternative approaches and practices. The goal of subaltern practice is to create economies, projects, and resources that can be made and used by community members and leaders to develop and promote community beneficial projects in their own language (or a language of their choice). In doing subaltern and CREDIBLE work, we need to develop a new array of tools and resources. This book provides a broad introduction for how this can be done along with examples of multiple CREDIBLE projects carried out by students and members of the broader community.
The textbook is divided into four sections. In Section 1, we establish the need for this work, introduce some concepts that the CREDIBLE approach draws on and explain what we mean by CREDIBLE projects. In Section 2, we share what can be done when we adopt a CREDIBLE approach, including several examples of student projects across a range of areas such as education, environment, healthcare and economic development. Section 3 provides detailed guidelines and instructions on how to develop CREDIBLE projects with worksheets and activities that can be used to conceptualise, plan, and develop CREDIBLE projects. Finally, section 4 includes three CREDIBLE project reports as examples of how this work can be written up for wider dissemination.
This text is an essential guide to a new way of doing linguistics, reflecting the diversity and richness of today’s world.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Part 1
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Making Sense of the World
Chapter 3: Moving Forward with Practice
Part 2
Chapter 4: CREDIBLE Projects in Education
Chapter 5: CREDIBLE Projects for the Environment
Chapter 6: CREDIBLE Projects for Health and Wellbeing
Chapter 7: CREDIBLE Projects for Economic Development
Part 3
Chapter 8: How do we do CREDIBLE? – ‘The Ribbit-Ribbit Pond’
Chapter 9: Let’s do CREDIBLE together – Taking Care of the Environment
Chapter 10: It’s now your turn to do CREDIBLE!
Part 4
Chapter 11: Kids Guide to Art in Camden – Mapping Art Spaces and Places
Chapter 12: Cards for Courage
Chapter 13: Gender Stereotypes in Fairy Tales: The CREDIBLE Project's Journey of Designing a Workshop
Chapter 14: Cantonese Dialect Maintenance Among Children
Index
Biography
Ahmar Mahboob also known as Sunny Boy Brumby an Prof Nomad is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Sydney.
Aurelie Mallet holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Sydney.
Lee Cheng Koay holds a Master of Crosscultural and Applied Linguistics and a Master of Health Communication.