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DESCRIPTION:What languages will be used in schools is an especially complic
 ated issue in postcolonial societies. A language associated with coloniali
 sm is often required for use in schools. Classroom interaction reveals tha
 t teachers and students often lack knowledge of the language. A handful of
  scholars have developed a notion -- safetalk -- for explaining that teach
 ers and students in such classrooms are colluding in saving face and manag
 ing their lack of knowledge. This presentation describes classroom interac
 tion in Varanasi\, India\, and demonstrates that safetalk exists in an esp
 ecially obvious way in the English class at the Hindi-medium school. This 
 is unsurprising in that it coincides with dominant perspectives on educati
 on in Varanasi. But\, the presentation also questions whether the notion a
 ccounts for the ways in which people who are working class envision Englis
 h and its uses in Varanasi and in northern India more generally. Speaking:
  LaDousa Chaise Associate Professor of Anthropology Hamilton College Spons
 or: Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs\, Co-Sponsor South Asia Center\, 
 Co-Sponsor Anthropology Graduate Student Organization\, Co-Sponsor
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SUMMARY:South Asia Center presents: Chaise LaDousa 
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:What languages will be used in schools is an e
 specially complicated issue in postcolonial societies. A language associat
 ed with colonialism is often required for use in schools. Classroom intera
 ction reveals that teachers and students often lack knowledge of the langu
 age. A handful of scholars have developed a notion -- safetalk -- for expl
 aining that teachers and students in such classrooms are colluding in savi
 ng face and managing their lack of knowledge. This presentation describes 
 classroom interaction in Varanasi\, India\, and demonstrates that safetalk
  exists in an especially obvious way in the English class at the Hindi-med
 ium school. This is unsurprising in that it coincides with dominant perspe
 ctives on education in Varanasi. But\, the presentation also questions whe
 ther the notion accounts for the ways in which people who are working clas
 s envision English and its uses in Varanasi and in northern India more gen
 erally. Speaking: LaDousa Chaise Associate Professor of Anthropology Hamil
 ton College Sponsor: Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs\, Co-Sponsor Sou
 th Asia Center\, Co-Sponsor Anthropology Graduate Student Organization\, C
 o-Sponsor
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