Why to Do Research Through Social and Critical Approaches? Confronting Our Positionalities and Praxis in Second Language Education

Conference: The IAFOR Conference on Educational Research & Innovation (ERI2022)
Title: Why to Do Research Through Social and Critical Approaches? Confronting Our Positionalities and Praxis in Second Language Education
Stream: Emerging Philosophical Perspectives on Learning & Education
Presentation Type: Oral Presentation
Authors:
Yolanda Samaca Bohorquez, Universidad Distrital Francisco José De Caldas, Colombia
Sandra Ximena Bonilla Medina, Universidad Distrital Francisco José De Caldas, Colombia

Abstract:

Doing Research in second language education (SLE) entails for us, teacher educators and researchers, both a commitment to understanding our teaching and learning realities in our educational settings, and an endeavor for a praxis to delink from pedagogical and research traditions that have emerged from the cannon in the global north, privileging a homogeneous and hegemonic views of reality. Thus, our purpose is to illustrate through social and critical approaches to research SLE in our immediate contexts (Bogotá-Colombia-South America), where there is a need to look at the particular social conditions, so we can confront conceptions of research stated in the global north and the ones we have been constructing in the realities of our contexts as an expression of knowledge produced in the global south. This work implies interrogation of our positionalities and praxis to be with and in the world (Freire, 1897) and be-becoming (Walsh, 2015, Kusch, 1972) to continue constructing collectively our knowledges based upon our experiences, the people we share with, and our contexts.

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