Virtual Exchange as Justice-Oriented Practices: Navigating Identity, Language and Power (New Perspectives on Language and Education, 139)

Reconceptualizes virtual exchange as a vehicle for humanizing education, expanding global perspectives and fostering values of inclusion and non-discrimination.

This book brings a justice-oriented focus to virtual exchange, highlighting how equity, inclusion and critical awareness can be meaningfully integrated into global learning environments.

The chapters in this book illuminate the intertwined nature of identity, language and power, shedding light on how these elements can perpetuate deficit narratives and structural inequality within virtual exchanges. To counter this, readers are introduced to diverse justice-based perspectives, frameworks, protocols, case studies and materials that support the design and facilitation of critical virtual exchange experiences.

The chapters engage with issues including partnerships and collaborations between the Global North and South, dialogue amid conflict and war, and the use of varieties of English and practices to foster student agency and collective accountability. Each chapter includes practical case studies and critical discussion questions designed for teacher education, facilitator training and professional development in culturally diverse classrooms.

Ching-Ching Lin is a teacher educator in TESOL and Bilingual Education at Adelphi University, New York, USA. Most recently she was co-editor of Reimagining Dialogue on Identity, Language and Power (Multilingual Matters, 2023, with Clara Vaz Bauler).

Clara Vaz Bauler is an Associate Professor of TESOL/Bilingual Education at Adelphi University, New York, USA She is invested in pedagogical practices that validate and affirm all multilingual students' knowledge, experiences and linguistic-semiotic resources. She advocates for the naturalization of multimodality, multilingualism and dialogue in language teaching and learning spaces via digital media technology.

Ersweetcel Servano is a Professor and Dean of the College of Education at Notre Dame of Dadiangas University in General Santos City, Philippines. Her research interests include language and law, Systemic Functional Linguistics, identity and hybridity, memory and trauma, virtual exchange, World Englishes and home language.