Teacher-Researchers Exploring Urban Semiotic Landscape as a Decolonizing Praxis Available to Purchase

Rosa Alejandra Medina Riveros teaches at Universidad Nacional de Colombia. She has a PhD in Education: Language, Literacy, and Culture from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She uses ethnographic, decolonial/decolonizing, and posthumanist epistemologies to study translanguaging and multimodal practices. She is an affiliated researcher at Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Lectoescrinautas Colciencias research group in Colombia.

Amparo Clavijo-Olarte is Professor in the Department of Applied Linguistics at Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas in Bogotá, Colombia. She is leader of the research group Lectoescrinautas devoted to doing research with public school teachers in school districts of Bogotá to expand the literacy practices and discourses inside the classrooms with the rich social, cultural, and linguistic resources in local communities. Dr. Clavijo was former editor of the Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal. She has published books, book chapters, and articles that have global readership.

Daniel Calderón-Aponte is an assistant professor and researcher at Universidad Industrial de Santander (Bucaramanga, Colombia) in the field of language education. His research interests encompass community-based pedagogies, critical literacies, language teacher identity, and narrative studies.