(M)othering Labeled Children

Bilingualism and Disability in the Lives of Latinx Mothers
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-80041-127-2
Verlag: Multilingual Matters

Buch, Englisch, Band 131, 194 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 322 g

Reihe: Bilingual Education & Bilingualism

This book takes a distinctive approach to exploring the experiences and identities of minoritized Latinx mothers who are raising a child who is labeled as both an emergent bilingual and dis/abled. It showcases relationships between families and schools and reveals the myriad of ways in which school-based decisions regarding disability, language and academic placement impact family dynamics. Treating the mothers as experts, this book uses testimonios to explore not only what mothers know but also how they develop funds of knowledge and how they apply them to their child’s education. The stories shed light on how mothers perceive their child’s disability, how they engage with their child and the value they place on bilingualism. The narratives reveal the complex lives mothers lead and the ways in which they strive to meet the academic and socioemotional needs of their children, regardless of the financial, physical and emotional costs to them. This book has significant implications for researchers and professionals working in bilingual education, special education, inclusive education and disability studies in education.

Winner of the AAAL First Book Award 2023.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cioè-Peña, María

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Mehrsprachigkeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Able Bendiciones of Latina Mothers: A Foreword

Preface: A Note on Positionality

Part 1: The Social Constructions of Motherhood – Poverty, Monolingualism and Disability (by Proxy)

Chapter 1. Introduction: Why Mothers? Why These Mothers?

Chapter 2. 'They don’t care, they don’t understand, they’re in denial': Constructions of Mothers as Others

Chapter 3. Other People's Stories

Chapter 4. Setting the Stage: An Introduction to the Mothers and the Significance of a Place and Time

Chapter 5. At Home with the Testimonialistas

Part 2: Testimonios: Mothers Speak

Chapter 6. Mothering With, Through and Alongside Dis/ability Labels

Chapter 7. Broken Promise: The Security of Bilingualism for the Future and the Ambiguity of Bilingualism in the Present

Chapter 8. Teacher? Student? Both: Mothers as Language Brokers

Chapter 9. Bending Roles: Resisting Exclusion, Creating Paths for Engagement

Chapter 10. Broken Spirits: Challenges Faced by MoEBLADs

Chapter 11. Motherhood as Purpose

Part 3: Making Room for Mothers

Chapter 12. Repairing Broken Systems: Radical Possibilities

Chapter 13.  Moving Forward Together

Making Personal, Professional and Global Connections: An Afterword

Über Autor(innen)

Cioè-Peña, María
María Cioè-Peña is an Assistant Professor and a Community-Engaged Teaching Fellow at Montclair State University. María earned her PhD in Urban Education from The Graduate Center - City University of New York, where she was also an Advance Research Collaborative fellow and a Presidential MAGNET Fellow. She is a bilingual/biliterate education researcher and educator who examines the intersections of disability, language, school-parent partnerships and education policy. Taking a sociolinguistic approach and stance, she pushes and reimagines the boundaries of inclusive spaces for minoritized children. Stemming from her experiences as a former bilingual special education teacher, María’s research focuses on bilingual children with dis/abilities, their families and their ability to access multilingual and inclusive learning spaces within public schools. Her interests are deeply rooted in political economy, raciolinguistic perspectives and critical dis/ability awareness within schools and families.

María Cioè-Peña is Assistant Professor at Montclair State University, USA. Her research interests are deeply rooted in political economy, raciolinguistic perspectives and critical dis/ability awareness within schools and families, and encompass bilingual children with dis/abilities, their families and their ability to access multilingual and inclusive learning spaces within public schools.