Abstract This article introduces the special issue “Contemporary Narratives of Bildung: New Directions” by distinguishing “narratives of Bildung” from alternate terms such as Bildungsroman, or coming-of-age stories. It does so to recognize Bildung as the core element of a genre that is now widely found across media and to reflect the diversity of its present-day iterations. This introduction also traces the paradigm shifts (most prominently “critical multilingualism”) and the scholarly landmarks that have allowed for the increasingly thorough examination of the globalization and diversification of the Bildung genre over the past decades. It argues that, as they attend to the poetics of plurality and difference in their primary texts, the articles included in this special issue open up new ways of conceptualizing the intersections of Bildung and linguistic diversity, hybridity, mobility, inbetweenness, and feminist interventions. These new directions delineate emerging sub-genres that respond to the changing social demands and norms that shape contemporary narratives of Bildung.

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教育的当代叙事：新方向*

摘要 本文通过将“教育的叙事”与诸如成长小说或成年故事等替代术语区分开来，介绍了特刊“教育的当代叙事：新方向”。这样做是为了将教学视为现在在媒体中广泛发现的流派的核心元素，并反映其当今迭代的多样性。本介绍还追溯了范式转变（最突出的是“批判性多语言主义”）和学术里程碑，这些转变使人们能够对过去几十年中教育流派的全球化和多样化进行越来越彻底的审查。它认为，当他们在主要文本中关注多元和差异的诗学时，本期特刊中的文章开辟了概念化教育与语言多样性、混合性、流动性、中间性和女权主义干预的交叉点的新方法。这些新方向描绘了新兴的子类型，以响应塑造当代教育叙事的不断变化的社会需求和规范。