[Project.leer] The Violence of the Literature Review

This is a good example of one that was shared and why we have to take an empirical perspective- no one I think really argues that it is fine to promote multilingualism that I know of (I am sure there are some knuckleheads one could point to though)- all that to get to "foremost of which would be parents’ desire for their children to be educated in multiple languages. But one has to be the language of the new home country for a host of reasons- this stuff has become the bread and butter of many education colleges- and the decolonization thing is in…symbolic violence is another term that in fashion- or epistemic violence/injustice. It is part of the "science must fall" movement also...”epistemological privilege” because science is privileged above other ways of knowing and therefore oppressive...English is also- and well- who cares if students don’t know how to read- it is better than being oppressed (from some of the perspectives in Curriculum and Instruction). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemic_injustice Coined by Fricker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_Fricker On the decolonization- Fannon is cited in post-colonial studies and multi-cultural education. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frantz_Fanon It is the science wars of the 1990s all over again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_wars MDB