Centering Multilingual Learners and Countering Raciolinguistic Ideologies in Teacher Education

Principles, Policies and Practices

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

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781800414136
• eBook ISBN: 9781800414167
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Professional Development
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Figures and Tables
• Acronyms
• Acknowledgments
• About the Authors
• 1 Contradictions of Stability and Change
• 2 The Research Design and the People Behind It
• 3 Framing the Study
• 4 Who are Multilingual Learners in Ontario Imagined to Be?
• 5 Preparing Teacher Candidates to Support Multilingual Learners: Insights from the Field
• 6 STEPing into Deficit Thinking
• 7 (Un)Learning Translanguaging Pedagogies
• 8 Practices and Principles of Change
• Appendix: Overview of the PeCK-LIT Test and Additional Analyses
• References
• Index