Learnings from/about diversity in space and time: discursive constructions in the semiotic landscape of a teacher education building in Norway
This article critically examines the discourses concerning historical and transnational linguistic and cultural diversity in the semiotic landscape of a new teacher education building in Norway. In 2020, this building, housing the Department of Education, opened at UiT The Arctic University of Norwa...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/30195 2023-09-05T13:23:47+02:00 Learnings from/about diversity in space and time: discursive constructions in the semiotic landscape of a teacher education building in Norway Sollid, Hilde Hiss, Florian Pesch, Anja Maria 2023-05-25 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/30195 https://doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2023.2216017 eng eng Taylor & Francis International Journal of Multilingualism Sollid, Hiss, Pesch. Learnings from/about diversity in space and time: discursive constructions in the semiotic landscape of a teacher education building in Norway. International Journal of Multilingualism. 2023:1-17 FRIDAID 2149704 doi:10.1080/14790718.2023.2216017 1479-0718 1747-7530 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/30195 Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) openAccess Copyright 2023 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 VDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010 VDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010 Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel Peer reviewed publishedVersion 2023 ftunivtroemsoe https://doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2023.2216017 2023-08-23T23:07:11Z This article critically examines the discourses concerning historical and transnational linguistic and cultural diversity in the semiotic landscape of a new teacher education building in Norway. In 2020, this building, housing the Department of Education, opened at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, in the city of Tromsø. Designing, constructing, and decorating a new building for a national teacher education was taken as an opportunity to reflect on and negotiate the institution’s role in relevant contemporary, as well as historical, educational discourses and to mark a current standpoint. Taking a nexus analytical approach, we analyse how linguistic and cultural diversity are represented in the department’s public space and how this is interwoven with the construction of the institution’s position in a multilingual and multicultural environment. Our analysis shows that this diversity is constructed through various contrasts. Sámi identities and regional roots of knowledge are emphasised in the official part of the semiotic landscape – framed as learnings from diversity. However, by analysing meta-sociolinguistic discourses about diversity, we show that this is accompanied by the erasure of other aspects of linguistic and cultural diversity, in particular Kven culture and identity, transnational diversity, and children and their lifeworld. Article in Journal/Newspaper Tromsø Arctic University of Norway UiT The Arctic University of Norway University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Arctic Norway Tromsø International Journal of Multilingualism 1 17 |
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This article critically examines the discourses concerning historical and transnational linguistic and cultural diversity in the semiotic landscape of a new teacher education building in Norway. In 2020, this building, housing the Department of Education, opened at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, in the city of Tromsø. Designing, constructing, and decorating a new building for a national teacher education was taken as an opportunity to reflect on and negotiate the institution’s role in relevant contemporary, as well as historical, educational discourses and to mark a current standpoint. Taking a nexus analytical approach, we analyse how linguistic and cultural diversity are represented in the department’s public space and how this is interwoven with the construction of the institution’s position in a multilingual and multicultural environment. Our analysis shows that this diversity is constructed through various contrasts. Sámi identities and regional roots of knowledge are emphasised in the official part of the semiotic landscape – framed as learnings from diversity. However, by analysing meta-sociolinguistic discourses about diversity, we show that this is accompanied by the erasure of other aspects of linguistic and cultural diversity, in particular Kven culture and identity, transnational diversity, and children and their lifeworld. |
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Learnings from/about diversity in space and time: discursive constructions in the semiotic landscape of a teacher education building in Norway |
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Learnings from/about diversity in space and time: discursive constructions in the semiotic landscape of a teacher education building in Norway |
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Learnings from/about diversity in space and time: discursive constructions in the semiotic landscape of a teacher education building in Norway |
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