"I don't want to be pushed into an islamic school"

Autor(en)
Nadja Thoma
Abstrakt

This article argues for the significance of biographical theory in research on raciolinguistic ideologies in education. It accounts for biographies as a basis for the study of the ways in which students conceive the languages, social spaces and power relations which shape processes of inclusion and exclusion. Taking anti-Muslim discourses in Austria as a point of departure, this article introduces raciolinguistics as a way to theorize the co-naturalization of language and race in education. It then delineates the use of biographies to contextualize understandings of the significance of language across the life course. In the empirical part, I analyze the biographical narration of a university student who wears a headscarf. I focus on her experiences with the specific relationship between anti-Muslim racism and language in different stages of her life. The final part of the article discusses how biographical research can contribute to a broader understanding of raciolinguistic power relations in education.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Bildungswissenschaft
Journal
Race, Ethnicity and Education
Band
26
Seiten
735-753
Anzahl der Seiten
19
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/13613324.2020.1798390
Publikationsdatum
08-2020
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
503025 Schulpädagogik, 503001 Allgemeine Pädagogik, 503006 Bildungsforschung
Schlagwörter
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Demography, Cultural Studies, Education
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/bd6c8d3c-a7a5-4ee5-89c5-b918c82c7ac0