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Towards a Decolonial Project: A Quest between ELT Colonial Ideologies in the ELTP and the Interrelations among Its Subjects

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Portada del libro Methodological uncertainties of research in ELT education I
Titulo
Towards a Decolonial Project: A Quest between ELT Colonial Ideologies in the ELTP and the Interrelations among Its Subjects
Autor(es)
Yolanda Samacá Bohórquez
Titulo del Libro
Methodological uncertainties of research in ELT education I
Pais
Colombia
Editorial
Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas
ISBN
978-958-787-199-9
Paginas
163-182
Año
2020

In this chapter, I intend to describe and reflect upon the colonial mechanisms that are reflected in some ELT colonial ideologies and practices, which are also extended to the ELTP. I will also portray some of the tensions that arise when framing a decolonial research methodology as a result of the Western research practices where we have been immersed. Finally, I will advocate for a research path to collectively understand and analyze the senses of the ETLP under a decolonial perspective and methodology. Such purpose might be accomplished through decolonial hybrid narratives (Díaz, 2015; Walsh, 2013); identifying the locus of enunciation of those who live the reality of the teaching practicum, finding contradictions, walking, dialoguing, and historicizing possibles and plurals of the pedagogical experience where I recognize myself as a teacher-researcher, all form part of what I seek to better understand. (....)