Investigating urban language and literacy practices to construct Bogotá as a multicultural place. 2019 - 2022.
Center for Research and Scientific Development. Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas.
Project #: 4-62-587-19
This fascinating collaborative ethnography was developed in collaboration with undergraduate students, graduate students and two research assistants from the undergraduate language program at UDFJC. The university-based researchers were Judy Sharkey from the University of New Hampshire, Theresa Austin, and Rosa Alejandra Medina from University of Massachusetts-Amherst and Amparo Clavijo-Olarte as principal investigator. The participants in the study were local teachers from two public schools, graffiti artists, business owners, and university students in La Candelaria and Santafé, two districts in the historic center of Bogotá.
Conferences
We have shared the results of the ethnography in conferences in Hamburg, Germany (LL13) 2022, Medellin (2021), Tampa, USA (2019) and Tijuana, Mexico (2020, 2022).
The 13th Linguistic Landscape Workshop
Universität Hamburg, 09.08.2022
The city as a text: Raising awareness of urban semiotic landscapes for language and literacy education
Presenters: Amparo Clavijo Olarte, Kewin Prieto Gonzalez, Rosa Medina
Research Symposium Plurilingualism in Language Education
Universidad de Antioquia, 02.25.2021
Crossing multilingual boundaries with powerful literacies: A collaborative ethnography in the linguistic and socio-economic landscape of downtown Bogotá
Presenters: Amparo Clavijo Olarte
Seminario Internacional Virtual de Lenguas después del COVID-19
Universidad Autónoma de Baja California. Mexicali, Mexico. , 12.14.2020
The city as a text: Multimodal text production in context of participatory pedagogy: school-family connections in times of Covid-19
Presenters: Amparo Clavijo Olarte y Maria Deisy Gómez
Literacy Research Association 69th Annual Conference "Literacy Research: Illuminating the Future"
Tampa, Florida, 12.04 - 12-07.2019
Investigating local literacy practices with Colombian teachers to connect communities and school curricula
Presenters: Amparo Clavijo Olarte y Daniel Calderón Aponte