Michelle Bedeker is an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Education (GSE) at Nazarbayev University. She holds a Ph.D. in Language and Literacy Studies, a Master's Degree in Education (Applied Linguistics/Language Education), a Bachelor of Education (Postgraduate) in Curriculum, Pedagogy, and School Leadership, and a Bachelor in Education (undergraduate) degree from the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. From a global south perspective, she uses a critical postcolonial third space lens that sits outside western educational discourses because it opposes them, even as it is defined and influenced by their existence, to counter global-local binaries. As a result, her interest is in the notion of entanglement to reveal what Santos (2014) calls the silenced and invisible epistemologies in multilingual education and pedagogy. Her approved research grant titled "A Transformative Approach to CLIL pedagogy in Kazakhstan" deals with STEM teachers' sense-making of their classroom realities and local epistemologies to offer contextually-relevant disciplinary literacy and metalinguistic support they need in the Kazakhstani CLIL context.