Centering Multilingual Learners and Countering Raciolinguistic Ideologies in Teacher Education: Principles, Policies and Practices (Language, Education and Diversity, 3) - Softcover

Bale, Jeff; Rajendram, Shakina; Brubacher, Katie; Nii Owoo, Mama Adobea; Burton, Jennifer; Wong, Wales; Zhang, Yiran; Larson, Elizabeth Jean; Gagné, Antoinette; Kerekes, Dr. Julie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1800414137 ISBN 13: 9781800414136

Publisher: Multilingual Matters, 2023

Synopsis

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.

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About the Authors

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.

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.

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1800414137
• ISBN 13: 9781800414136
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280