Raúl Alberto MoraUniversidad Pontificia Bolivariana · Escuela de Educación y Pedagogía
Raúl Alberto Mora
Ph.D., Language & Literacy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Raúl Alberto Mora, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of English Education and Literacy Studies at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana. Dr. Mora also chairs the award-winning Literacies in Second Languages Project Research Lab. His research focuses on the implementation of alternative literacy paradigms in second language education and research, the study of second language literacies in physical and virtual spaces, and the use of sociocritical frameworks in language education.
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August 2012 - present
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This volume provides six distinct frameworks for integrating translanguaging and multimodality as pedagogical possibilities in today’s classrooms and beyond. It brings the two constructs together in investigating the language and literacy experiences of multilingual learners across a range of sociocultural and educational contexts.
The book featur...
Keynote Address
https://www.youtube.com/live/XGiULe0ESM4?si=OmYMJgvaKUfefcJI&t=18325
La evaluación es un aspecto que predomina en la educación, pero que necesita ser repensada. Este artículo reflexiona sobre la noción de evaluación en la sociedad actual y propone una alternativa a lo que ella podría y debería ser. Como resultado de un estudio crítico del papel de la evaluación en la educación actual, decidimos llevar a cabo un anál...
Over the past decade, different scholars in ELT have raised questions about the notion of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and the growing issues related to inequity that such a framework has raised. Our field in Colombia needs to interrogate the very frameworks and concepts we use to define the language and how those definitions will include us...
This article, relying on a series of epiphanies throughout my journey as a researcher and scholar-activist, shares my relationship with criticality and how it has guided my research and teaching agendas. I share how critical theories have informed my main research areas and the questions and issues I have raised in my own work. The article also dis...
This essay describes an academic experience that both authors shared during a research visit to Russia in November 2018. The goal of this experience was to introduce participants (students and professors) to the notion of multimodal writing as an alternative to how we create texts in class. The essay first contextualizes the idea of “post-literacy”...
Teacher educators often come to this role as former K-12 teachers and need to negotiate and transform their own identities and self-efficacy. This insider-outsider reflexivity offers considerations for teacher education and in-service English education programs that strive for an emphasis on literacies theory and practice in their curricula. In thi...
The paper was aimed at finding the alternative substitute communicative practices and factors influencing communicative situations between Spanish-speaking visitors and their Russian hosts in monolingual Yekaterinburg during the 2018 World Football Cup. The socio-linguistic data revealed that visitors and hosts used multimodal modes of communicatio...
One common trend in blended learning is the emphasis on the use of technological devices and tools. However, without a strong refection on the epistemological features of technology use, all that is left are functional solutions, aimed at solving simple, short-term problems. Practitioners and scholars interested in blended learning must think deepl...
Although the usual narratives around adolescence
and trauma seem to gravitate around Global North contexts, young adult learners in the different re- gions where we work may also be victims of differ- ent forms of psychological trauma, including mental illness or severe rejection by peers and others (Rose, Thornicroft, Pinfold, & Kassam, 2007), whi...
This article analyses civic participation in three “post-socialist” cities – Yekaterinburg, Russia; Lublin, Poland; and Pilsen, Czech Republic. The conceptual mix of nomad thought and Guattari’s concept of post-media city provides a fresh perspective to study today’s trends in contemporary cities. It helps rethink the possibilities for urban and gl...
Since the late 1990s, as a response to the General Law of Education (1994), the Colombian Ministry of Education has launched several versions of a national bilingualism policy to revolutionize how we learn and teach English in our regions. These policies have also produced conceptual documents related to teaching standards and curricula. Neverthele...
This chapter will introduce a pedagogical framework to engage with literacy practices in early childhood contexts and English language learners (ELLs), based on the commonalities across three research studies carried out in three schools in Medellín, Colombia. In this chapter, we argue that developing strong pedagogical proposals for PreK-5 spaces...
Is there such a thing as a monolingual city? That question drove the inquiry and analysis reported here of English as a language and semiotic resource in physical spaces in the city of Medellín, Colombia. Combining ethnographic methods with our conceptual framework of ‘city as literacy’, the authors spent 2 years exploring urban literacies stemming...
This chapter will introduce a pedagogical framework to engage with literacy practices in early childhood contexts and English language learners (ELLs), based on the commonalities across three research studies carried out in three schools in Medellín, Colombia. In this chapter, we argue that developing strong pedagogical proposals for PreK-5 spaces...
What does it mean to be a digital/social scholar today? What does it take to be a networked scholar? What complicating and mitigating factors are emerging today for digital and networked scholarship? Those are some of the questions that a group of digitally connected “obnoxious academics” (the Authors) have been wrestling with, first individually a...
The theme of this issue of The ALAN Review is focused globally on the world of young adult literature. As with previous Layered Literacies columns, our aim is to share emerging and excit-ing ways that youth are meaningfully engaging with digital tools and young adult novels. In this column, two of us from Medellín, Colombia (Raúl and Ta-tiana) and...
ECHEVERRI ÁLVAREZ, J. C. (2015). Escuela y métodos pedagógicos en clave de gubernamentalidad liberal: Colombia, 1821-1946. Medellín, CO: UPB. ISBN 978-958-764-258-2.
This special issue, entitled ‘The Trickster Activist in Global Humour and Comedy’, investigates the relevance of the concept of the trickster for explaining activist expressions that emanate from comedians, or that appear in comedy and humour more generally. Comedy has traditionally been viewed as an aesthetic or entertainment medium. It has often...
Jaime Garzón was a comic ahead of his time. While his comedy lifespan barely covered one decade (abruptly interrupted by his untimely death), his legacy in Colombian comedy and social activism remains strong. This article, rather than discussing his death, will focus on his life as a comedian who was the quintessential Colombian trickster. Through...
This column engages readers in reflexivity about the uses and meanings of literacy from a global perspective. Relying on the author's own experiences and current multilingual research, Mora discusses the issue of translating literacy into policy and advocacy. The first idea about translation tackles the importance of translating current ideas and t...
This is the editorial for the Special Issue on Education and Humour, edited by Drs. Raúl A. Mora, Simon Weaver, and Laura Mae Lindo. It provides an overview of the links between education and humour as a prelude to the overview of the five articles that comprise this issue.
This article documents the current research efforts of a research team at a Colombian university to explore the new forms of literacies in second languages in the city. The different research projects from this research team aim to break the social imaginaries, often perpetuated in policies, that people in cities are not using English as a literacy...
This article, the first column for this issue's Policy and Advocacy department, features a discussion about a recent experience in a graduate program in Medellín, Colombia introducing students to critical literacy. Graduate students used ideas from critical literacy to engage in an in-depth analysis of textbooks they had used in their practice. The...
This paper presents the results of an ongoing reflection for the past two years around the debates on English and languages within an academic team in charge of a new MA program in Colombia. In this paper, the author argues that the traditional binary opposition between second and foreign language, while useful in the past, may no longer be respond...
This paper presents the experiences of two professors and three of their students while implementing the use of WebQuests within a preservice English methods component at a Colombian university. Given its inquiry-based nature, WebQuests became a feasible alternative to merge several elements present within the curricular transformation of the Engli...
Drawing on data from a five-year longitudinal study of thirteen teacher education graduates, this chapter discusses the importance of abandoning the concept of a renaissance in preservice teacher education alone, and, instead, to creating more inclusive and cross-institutional structures for career-long professional education. It argues that a rebi...
Este artículo discutirá el concepto de literacidad desde una visión histórica y pedagógica para revisar las prácticas de interpretación y creación de textos de nuestros estudiantes. Partiendo de la definición seminal de Freire y Macedo, “leer el mundo y la palabra”, la primera parte del artículo discute cómo la evolución histórica de literacidad no...
Los vínculos entre Pierre Bourdieu y la educación superior han sido parte importante del trabajo investigativo del sociólogo francés. Muchos de sus textos han lanzado preguntas claves sobre el rumbo que se le ha de dar a este campo con el fin de ser un espacio más equitativo y justo. Este artículo parte de los acercamientos del autor a la propuesta...
Resumen Este artículo está basado en el trabajo de investigación que culminó en la disertación doctoral sobre la evolución de las creencias y prácticas en literacidad de docentes y egresados de un programa de educación en enseñanza del inglés. Inspirado en la idea de reflexividad como un proceso de reflexión social que lleva a repensar el quehacer...
This is not one teacher educator’s study of her teaching, nor is this a report of a working collaboration among a professor
and research assistants in which her self analysis and interpretations are triangulated with their analysis and interpretations.
Although elements of both are present in the chapter, the specific focus is on the evolution of t...
This critical literature review is the result of a reflection about some of the problems affecting ESL instruction in U.S. Urban schools. The article first situates the problem of ESL/Bilingual Education, including historical background and political and human rights education standpoints. The second part of the paper offers some research-based con...