Centering Multilingual Learners and Countering Raciolinguistic Ideologies in Teacher Education

Principles, Policies and Practices
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-80041-413-6
Verlag: Multilingual Matters

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 430 g

This book details a three-year, multi-stranded study of teacher education programs that prepare future teachers to work with multilingual learners. The book examines how racism and linguicism collaborate to shape the conditions under which teacher candidates learn how to teach. The analysis traces dynamic shifts in thinking and practice as participants reflected on their personal, professional and academic experiences in relation to formal curriculum and assessment policies to interpret what it means to work with multilingual learners in the classroom. The book offers guiding principles – above all, learning from multilingual learners, not only about them – and presents a suite of teacher-education practices to disrupt the interplay of language and race that so deeply shapes teacher-candidate learning about multilingual learners.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bale, Jeff

Rajendram, Shakina

Brubacher, Katie

Nii Owoo, Mama Adobea

Burton, Jennifer

Wong, Wales

Zhang, Yiran

Larson, Elizabeth Jean

Gagné, Antoinette

Kerekes, Julie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Lehrerausbildung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Mehrsprachigkeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Figures and Tables

Acronyms

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Chapter 1. Jeff Bale and Antoinette Gagné: Contradictions of Stability and Change

Chapter 2. Jeff Bale, Shakina Rajendram, Mama Adobea Nii Owoo, Katie Brubacher and Wales Wong: The Research Design and the People Behind it

Chapter 3. Jeff Bale: Framing the Study

Chapter 4. Shakina Rajendram, Mama Adobea Nii Owoo, Katie Brubacher, Wales Wong, Jennifer Burton and Jeff Bale: Who are Multilingual Learners in Ontario Imagined to Be?

Chapter 5. Shakina Rajendram, Mama Adobea Nii Owoo, Yiran Zhang, Julie Kerekes and Jeff Bale: Preparing Teacher Candidates to Support Multilingual Learners: Insights from the Field

Chapter 6. Jeff Bale, Katie Brubacher, Elizabeth Jean Larson and Yiran Zhang: STEPing into Deficit Thinking

Chapter 7. Jeff Bale, Shakina Rajendram, Katie Brubacher, Jennifer Burton and Wales Wong: (Un-)Learning Translanguaging Pedagogies

Chapter 8. Jeff Bale, Shakina Rajendram, Antoinette Gagné, Katie Brubacher, Wales Wong and Jennifer Burton: Practices and Principles of Change

Elizabeth Jean Larson: Appendix: Overview of the PeCK-LIT Test and Additional Analyses

Über Autor(innen)

Bale, Jeff
Jeff Bale is Professor of Language and Literacies Education at OISE, University of Toronto and currently serves as Vice President, University and External Affairs for the University of Toronto Faculty Association. He is lead author of Centering Multilingual Learners and Challenging Raciolinguistic Ideologies in Teacher Education (Multilingual Matters, 2023) and is co-editor, along with Sarah Knopp, of Education and Capitalism: Struggles for Learning and Liberation (Haymarket, 2012). In 2021-2022, he was a Humboldt Fellow at the Universität Bremen and currently leads the Language and Race in Contemporary Canadian History project (see larchproject.ca), funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Kerekes, Julie
Julie Kerekes is Associate Professor in Language and Literacies Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada. Her research interests include interlanguage pragmatics, language and power in intercultural institutional settings, and workplace communication.

Nii Owoo, Mama Adobea
Mama Adobea Nii-Owoo is a Postdoctoral Researcher at McGill University's Department of Integrated Studies in Education specializing in policies and practices around multilingual education, teacher education and comparative international and development education. Her work addresses the complexities and challenges in teaching literacy and language to multilingual learners speaking and writing in both English and African languages. Her scholarship includes the co-authored book, Centering Multilingual Learners and Countering Raciolinguistic Ideologies in Teacher Education: Principles, Policies and Practices (Multilingual Matters),  a chapter in the Handbook of Language and the Global South, and articles in peer-reviewed journals such as TESL Canada, OLBI Journal, and the International Journal of Qualitative Methods. Mama researches across multiple modalities, and her research is also featured in the documentary film, No Vernacular!, which explores African multilingualism and language policy in Ghana.

Rajendram, Shakina
Shakina Rajendram is an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream and the Coordinator of the Language Teaching Field at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto, Canada. Shakina has taught at the K-12 and post-secondary levels in Malaysia and Canada for over 12 years. Her current teaching and research focus on second language teaching methodologies, pre-service and in-service teacher education, and supporting multilingual learners and international students through translanguaging and multiliteracies pedagogies.

The authorship team all worked on the research project which forms the core of this book, some as faculty and some as doctoral researchers at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada.