From the personal to the institutional: Exploring language and identity across spaces

Abstract

This editorial suggests that language practices and identities shift across spaces, and in response to lived and imagined social, systemic, colonial, and historical realities. The editorial presents an overview of the six articles in this issue related to issues of language, diversity, and identity in a variety of contexts, including: elementary schools (Birner), after school programs for secondary students (Hauseman), post-secondary institutions (Surtees & Balyasnikova; Lepp Friesen), policy context for refugee youth (Brewer), and in an evocative personal reflection on identity in relation to Canada’s colonial project (Wright Cardinal).