Ep. 08 Dialogue on Multimodal, Multicultural, and Multilingual Education

In the eighth episode of CCYSC Awaaz, Cassie Brownell and Shivani Nag discuss their research interests and specifically explore multimodal, multicultural, and multilingual education. Dr. Brownell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education within the University of Toronto. She received her doctorate in Curriculum, Instruction, and Teacher Education--with a language and literacies specialization and certificates in qualitative research and urban education--from Michigan State University in 2018.  Dr. Brownell's interests in language and literacy practices stem from her seven years of teaching experience. Her tenure as a teacher includes working with three and four year old students abroad as well as teaching grades 1, 2, and 4 in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans, Louisiana. Broadly, Dr. Brownell is interested in the politics of identity and language in contemporary schooling. Utilizing a sociocultural approach grounded in tenets of social justice, she seeks to better nuance children's writerly and social identities through developing a compositional fluency in the elementary English language arts classroom. Dr. Shivani Nag is an Assistant Professor in the School of Education Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi. Her academic and research interests include sociocultural theories of learning and cognition, multilingual education, critical and feminist pedagogies, and democratization of education with focus on processes of socio-cultural inclusion of the marginalized in school and higher education and qualitative research methods. Edited by Astha Ohri  (student, School of Education Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi) Music:  Little Idea by Scott Holmes (scottholmesmusic.com) / CC BY-NC