ESTUPOLI - Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas

Alber Josué Forero-Mondragón M.A. is a Colombian English teacher with more than six years of professional experience in language academies as well as in secondary and higher education. His current research interests include hip-hop pedagogies, language teachers' professional development, and critical discourse studies. Regarding this latter, the chapter written for this book is a theoretical review that sets the ground for conceptualizing the discourse of standard English. Such conceptualization has resulted from developing his MA dissertation in which he shed light on how the discourse in question exercises disciplinary power in international scholarships.

Álvaro Hernán Quintero-Polo holds a doctorate in Education and an MA in applied linguistics. He is a full professor at Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas (Colombia). His areas of interest are language teacher identity, critical discourse studies, narrative studies, and educational policies.

Camila Andrea Duarte González es licenciada en Lenguas Extranjeras de la Universidad Pedagógica Nacional y magíster en Lingüística Aplicada a la Enseñanza del Inglés de la Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas. Actualmente, se desempeña como docente de tiempo completo en la Facultad de Lenguas Extranjeras de la Universidad Pedagógica Nacional y como docente de hora cátedra en la Universidad Distrital. Su trayectoria profesional se ha centrado en la formación de docentes en lenguas extranjeras, con énfasis en la didáctica, estudios del lenguaje y procesos sociocultural involucrado en la enseñanza del inglés. Sus intereses de investigación incluyen temas relacionados con cultura, política, análisis del discurso y procesos de construcción de sociedad y paz en el campo de la enseñanza de lenguas.

Éder García-Dussán. Profesor de la Facultad de Ciencias y Educación, de la Universidad Distrital, Francisco José de Caldas, en los niveles de pregrado, maestría y doctorado por 10 años. Miembro de la Red de Docentes del Distrito, de la Red Iberoamericana de los Estudios de la Oralidad y de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Estudios del Discurso. Investigador, reconocido ante Colciencias, en el grupo de investigación Estudios Críticos sobre Políticas Educativas Colombianas (Estupoli). Autor de cinco libros sobre lingüística, semiótica cultural y urbana, pedagogía de la lengua materna y análisis literario (2008, 2012, 2015, 2018, 2021); compilador de obras sobre investigación en lengua materna (2014, 2017) y autor de publicaciones en revistas científicas de Colombia, España, Italia, República Checa, México y Chile que, a la fecha, suman sesenta artículos de producción personal, muchos de ellos desarrollados en las áreas de semiótica aplicada.

Eliana María Rubio C. is a professor at Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas. She holds a Master in Foreign Language Teaching from Universidad Pedagógica Nacional. She studied a bachelor in Modern Languages English and Spanish at Universidad Distrital. She has supported different bilingualism projects lead by Secretaria de Educación del Distrito.Currently is a member of the research seedbed ENSEÑANZA Y APRENDIZAJE DE LENGUAS EXTRANJERAS, CULTURA Y JUSTICIA SOCIAL and the Research Group Estudios Críticos de Políticas Educativas – ESTUPOLI.

Ferney holds a PhD in language discourse and communication from King’s College London. His research interests center on bilingual education, the implications of language policies, processes of construction of teacher identity, rural education, and the relations of all these elements with issues of social justice. He is currently an associate professor at the school of Humanities and Social Sciences at Ean University.

Jairo Enrique Castañeda is a teacher educator who currenty works as an assistant professor of the Foreign Language Teaching Program at Universidad Surcolombiana. He started his career in the field of ELT upon completion of her B.A. in Spanish and English at Universidad Pedagógica Nacional in 2003. Since then, he has held a variety of positions, including English teacher, teacher educator, material designer, research coordinator at recognized private and public institutions. He holds a Master's in Education degree from Universidad Externado de Colombia. The emphasis chosen for this master's was on English Language Teaching. The degree work was an action research project oriented to foster awarenness about students' realities through the use of role plays and simulations. The research was developed with 8th graders from a private school in Bogotá, and the results were published in a local journal in 2010. In 2012, he started his career as a teacher educator. Since then, he has taught in some initial teacher education programs in different universities, such as Universidad de La Salle, Universidad de San Buenaventura-Bogotá, Universidad, Universidad Distrital and Universidad Surcolombiana. Additionally, he has been an invited professor in some Masters programs at Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, Instituto Caro y Cuervo, Universidad Militar, Universidad Distrital, and Universidad Surolombiana. Currently, he is finishing his doctoral studies at Universidad Distrital in the Doctorado Interinstitucional en Educación. He chose the emphasis on ELT due to his project is oriented to unveil what happens with pre-service English language teachers' identities during their trajectories through the initial teaching program; the initial ideas of this research were presented in a chapter published in 2018. To have the pre-service English language teachers be active participants in the research, he decided to use collaborative autoethnography, and the rationale for this option was described in another chapter published in 2020.

Jhon Jairo Losada has been an English educator for over a decade. He holds a BA in English Language Teaching and an MA in English Didactics from Universidad Surcolombiana. He is currently a full-time professor at Universidad Surcolombiana. His research interests are language assessment, bilingual education, teacher identity and critical pedagogy.

Jose David Largo-Rodríguez is a full-time professor in the Philology program in Foreign Languages from Universidad Nacional de Colombia and the assistant to the editor of HOW Journal from the Colombian Association of English Teachers (ASOCOPI). He holds a BA in Modern Languages from UPTC and a Master's in Applied Linguistics from Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas. He is part of the research group ESTUPOLI from Universidad Distrital and PROFILE from Universidad Nacional. His research interests revolve around identities, professional development, and narrative inquiry.

Melissa Cobo Campo, M.A., is a cultural manager, writer, and researcher with a background in Political Science from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and a master's degree in Communication-Education with a focus on Literature from Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas. Her work bridges literature, technology, and communication, with a strong interest in the artistic representation of political violence and memory. Her creative and academic work explores interactive storytelling, electronic literature, and digital narratives as tools for peacebuilding and collective memory.

Sandra Viviana Gómez Gaitán holds a B.Ed. in Basic Education with an emphasis in Humanities: Spanish and Foreign Languages from Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, and an M.A. in Applied Linguistics for the Teaching of English from Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas. Currently, she works as a full-time English teacher at a public school in Bogotá. With over ten years of professional experience in English Language Teaching (ELT), she has also worked as a university professor at institutions such as Universidad La Gran Colombia and Universidad de San Buenaventura, Bogotá. Her scholarly interests include language teacher identity, narrative studies, gender studies, and language policy.

S. Ximena Bonilla Medina is a professor of school of education at the language programme. She is a doctor in education of University of East London, and also holds a MA. in applied linguists for TEFL and a B. A in Spanish and English. She is a researcher from ESTUPOLI and director of the “semillero” teaching and learning foreign languages, culture and social justice. Her interests are language teaching and interculturality, race and new technologies.

Yiny Marcela Martínez is a primary teacher at Confederación Brisas del Diamante School. She holds a Master in Education for Peace. She studied a bachelor in Humanidades y Lengua Castellana at Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas. Nowadays belongs to the research seedbed ENSEÑANZA Y APRENDIZAJE DE LENGUAS EXTRANJERAS, CULTURA Y JUSTICIA SOCIAL and the Research Group Estudios Críticos de Políticas Educativas – ESTUPOLI.

Yolanda Samacá Bohórquez is a teacher educator at Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas. She holds a B. Ed (Spanish-English) from Universidad Pedagógica y tecnológica de Colombia UPTC, an M.A. in Applied Linguistics to the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language from Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas. At present, she is a Doctorate candidate in the ELT Emphasis at the Interinstitutional Ph.D. Education Program from the same University. She is a member of the Research Group Critical Studies of Colombian Educational Policies. Her work has focused on initial language teacher education processes from critical pedagogies and decolonial stances. She has written several articles and book chapters on these strands and has participated as a presenter in several local, national, and international conferences on education, applied linguistics, English language teaching, and qualitative research.