Toward a Race Radical Vision of Bilingual Education for Kurdish Users in Turkey A Commentary

This commentary presents a Race Radical Vision (RRV) for Kurdish-Turkish bilingual education in Turkey. A RRV reinforces the need to consciously include issues of racism, imperialism, identity, and local practices in the development of bilingual education teacher education programs that advocate for...

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Published inJournal of ethnic and cultural studies Vol. 1; no. 1; pp. 1 - 5
Main Author Faltis, Christian
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Istanbul Hasan Aydin 01.12.2014
Yildiz Technical University
Subjects
Bilingual Education
Bilingual Teachers
Bilingualism
Capitalism
Colonialism
Educational Practices
Educational programs
Genocide
Human rights
Immigrant students
Imperialism
Individualism
Kurdish language
Kurdish people
Language policy
Language rights
Language usage
Linguistics
Middle Eastern cultural groups
Minority languages
Multicultural education
Multiculturalism & pluralism
Neoliberalism
Original Articles
Race
Racism
Teacher education
Teachers
Turkish language
United States > US
Turkey
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Summary:This commentary presents a Race Radical Vision (RRV) for Kurdish-Turkish bilingual education in Turkey. A RRV reinforces the need to consciously include issues of racism, imperialism, identity, and local practices in the development of bilingual education teacher education programs that advocate for minoritized language use in all aspects of education. It is argued that without a RRV for bilingual education, the State will represent bilingual education to benefit of own interests, ultimately destroying bilingual education as a strong anti-racist educational practice. Turkey needs a strong RRV of Kurdish-Turkish bilingual education to ensure that racism and colonialism remain in the national educational discourse. This commentary draws on experiences of bilingual education in the United States as well as other countries to show the importance of a RRV for developing bilingual education from a local language rights perspective. It also points out some of the challenges bilingual educators and scholars face when State becomes involved in funding and shaping the anti-racist perspective in bilingual the State takes over the anti-racism practices, especially when the State is tied to neoliberalism and neoliberal ideals of individualism and colorblindness.
ISSN:2149-1291
2149-1291
DOI:10.29333/ejecs/10