ERIC Number: EJ1458911
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025
Pages: 17
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ISSN: ISSN-1356-2517
EISSN: EISSN-1470-1294
'We Couldn't Share Who We Are without Being Able to Draw on This "Twoness"': Lessons for Higher Education in Integrating Linguistic and Racial Justice in the United States
Manka Varghese; Rachel Snyder Bhansari; Patricia Venegas-Weber; Renee Shank; Grace Cornell Gonzales; Cristina Betancourt; Teddi Beam-Conroy; Patricia Ferreyra
Teaching in Higher Education, v30 n2 p427-443 2025
This article describes a program which centered multilingualism and racial justice in higher education in an elementary teacher education program in the United States. By using the theory of ideological clarity, we sought to understand learning outcomes for teacher candidates (TCs) and their contexts, and make salient the racial and linguistic intersections within TCs' identities/subjectivities. We show that by drawing significantly on candidates' linguistic, racial, and cultural resources, and intentionally supporting them within their teacher development, the program allowed TCs to develop critical awareness of ongoing educational inequities. At the same time, how candidates take up linguistic justice varies according to their raciolinguicized subjectivities while their reflections and enactments around multilingualism cannot necessarily be equated with taking a stance towards racial justice. We, therefore, advocate for higher education to continue establishing multilingual pedagogies through pedagogies and frameworks that concurrently address racism and decenter Whiteness.
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Education, Higher Education, Social Justice, Multilingualism, Racism, Cultural Background, Student Centered Learning, Teacher Education Programs
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Elementary Education
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Language: English
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