‘Chinuch Mashlim’—Losses and Displacements at the Contact Zone between English and Hebrew: Transcending Monolingual Boundaries

Eilam, Efrat; Lynch, Julianne; Sadler, Kirsten

doi:10.3390/educsci7020056

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‘Chinuch Mashlim’—Losses and Displacements at the Contact Zone between English and Hebrew: Transcending Monolingual Boundaries

by

Efrat Eilam

^1,*

,

Julianne Lynch

²

and

Kirsten Sadler

¹

College of Arts and Education, Victoria University, Footscray, VIC 3011, Australia

²

Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University, Burwood, VIC 3125, Australia

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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

Educ. Sci. 2017, 7(2), 56; https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci7020056

Submission received: 25 October 2016 / Revised: 25 April 2017 / Accepted: 18 May 2017 / Published: 31 May 2017

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This conceptual article investigates the losses and displacements taking place at the contact zone between English and Hebrew. The study focuses on one Hebrew term ‘chinuch mashlim’ [complementary education in Hebrew] and its relationships with its equivalent English term ‘informal education’. By applying a theoretic–linguistic analysis process, the study traces the socio-historical-political meanings of ‘chinuch mashlim’ and relates this theoretical construct to its English counterpart, ‘informal education’. Examination of the relationships between the two terms at their contact zone reveals a strong English dominancy which creates a barrier for researchers in the field to use their full linguistic repertoire. The analysis reveals that the monolingual ‘informal education’ research does not create permeable boundaries that allow valuable knowledge to transcend from Hebrew to English.

Keywords: Anglophone dominance; bi-lingual contact-zone; ‘chinuch mashlim’; cross-linguistic knowledge development; multilingual research; informal education; STEM outreach; translation; post-monolingual research methodology

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Eilam, E.; Lynch, J.; Sadler, K. ‘Chinuch Mashlim’—Losses and Displacements at the Contact Zone between English and Hebrew: Transcending Monolingual Boundaries. Educ. Sci. 2017, 7, 56. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci7020056

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Eilam E, Lynch J, Sadler K. ‘Chinuch Mashlim’—Losses and Displacements at the Contact Zone between English and Hebrew: Transcending Monolingual Boundaries. Education Sciences. 2017; 7(2):56. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci7020056

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Eilam, Efrat, Julianne Lynch, and Kirsten Sadler. 2017. "‘Chinuch Mashlim’—Losses and Displacements at the Contact Zone between English and Hebrew: Transcending Monolingual Boundaries" Education Sciences 7, no. 2: 56. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci7020056

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Eilam, E., Lynch, J., & Sadler, K. (2017). ‘Chinuch Mashlim’—Losses and Displacements at the Contact Zone between English and Hebrew: Transcending Monolingual Boundaries. Education Sciences, 7(2), 56. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci7020056

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