Towards Pluriversal Language Education: Interview with Dr. Yecid Ortega

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https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2025.e109424

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Interview, Yecid Ortega

Abstract

Interview with Dr. Yecid Ortega, researcher for the ARTEM Research Collective and Muse Arts Creative Lab.

Author Biographies

Leonardo da Silva, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Leonardo da Silva is a Professor at Departamento de Língua e Literatura Estrangeiras (Foreign Languages and Literatures Department) at UFSC - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Federal University of Santa Catarina) and a permanent member of the Graduate Program in English in the same institution. His main research interests include Critical Pedagogy, Task Based Language Teaching and Teaching of English and Portuguese as Additional Languages. He holds a master's degree and a PhD in language studies and his most recent publications focus on critical perspectives and emancipatory practices in language education.

Priscila Fabiane Farias, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Priscila Fabiane Farias is a professor at the Departamento de Metodologia de Ensino (Teaching Methodologies Department) at UFSC - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Federal University of Santa Catarina) and a permanent member of the Graduate Program in English in the same institution. Her main research interests include Critical Language Pedagogy, Task Based Language Teaching and Teacher Education. She holds a master's degree and a PhD in language studies and her most recent publications focus on Critical Language Education.

Yecid Ortega, University of Toronto

Dr. Yecid Ortega has been committed to critical, creative, anti-racist, and decolonial worldviews in research and education for over two decades. Throughout his trajectory, Dr. Ortega has been exploring the pluriversality of social, cultural, and linguistic experiences of the most marginalized communities in society (Immigrants, Refugees, 2S/LGBTQIA+, Neurodivergent, Older Adults, etc.) in formal and nonformal contexts and grounded by alternative critical, creative, arts-based, and community-oriented approaches.

References

Rich, A. (2016). Collected poems: 1950-2012. W.W. Norton & Company.

Ortega, Y. (2025). Pluriversal Applied Linguistics: Implications for Language Teaching and Research from the Global South. De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111242880

Farias, P. F., Wielewick, H. G., Silva, L. (Eds.). (2025). Que história é essa, teacher?: Reflexões sobre a formação docente de línguas adicionais. Campinas: Pontes Editores.

Silva, L., Farias, P. F. (Hosts). (2020). Teaching in Critical Times [Audio podcast]. Spotify. https://open.spotify.com/show/2fKY4c1LMSryMy3pWDF7ir

Farias, P.F., Wielewick, H. G. (2020-2024). 7070 [Audio podcast]. Spotify. https://open.spotify.com/show/6Bw5YnX40nNTJf2lZXDVi4

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Published

2025-11-06

Issue

Vol. 78 (2025)

Section

Language Studies Dossier

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