Tracing Multilingual Writing Trajectories

How might we move toward more organic practices to support multilingual learners as they write across languages, across borders, and across cultures?

Dr. Amir Kalan has spent over twenty years teaching writing at all levels of education and in many places across the world. Now an assistant professor in the Department of Education at McGill University, Amir continues to challenge the ways second language classrooms often silo and assimilate students through particular genres and rhetorical performances. 

Topics covered in this conversation include: Using writing as a form of social action A short history of education as a colonial / industrial institution Why we need to consider more carefully the communities of writing that our students exist in.

Courtesy of Teaching Writers Speak podcast developed by members of the Toronto Writing Project.