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"Now It's All Upper-Class Parents Who Are Checking out Schools": Gentrification as Coloniality in the Enactment of Two-Way Bilingual Education Policies
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Dorner, Lisa M.; Cervantes-Soon, Claudia G.; Heiman, Daniel; Palmer, Deborah – Language Policy, 2021
Bilingual education as a whole has been gentrifying, as more privileged students replace Transnational Language Learners (TLLs) in bilingual education spaces and policies (Valdez et al. in Educ Policy 30(6):849-883, 2016. https://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2102/10.1177/0895904814556750). We argue this is an extension of coloniality (Mignolo in Local histories/global…
Descriptors: Advantaged, Foreign Policy, Bilingual Education Programs, Second Language Learning
"It Was Like a Magnet to Bring People In": School Administrators' Responses to the Gentrification of a Two-Way Bilingual Education (TWBE) Program in Central Texas
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Heiman, Daniel; Murakami, Elizabeth – Journal of School Leadership, 2019
This critical ethnographic study investigated how gentrification processes shaped an elementary school's community and two-way bilingual education (TWBE) program in Central Texas. Findings revealed how these gentrification processes impacted the principal and vice principal at the ontological and epistemological levels, as their ways of being and…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Bilingual Education, Immersion Programs, Social Class
Centering the Fourth Pillar in Times of TWBE Gentrification: "Spanish, Love, Content, Not in That Order"
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Heiman, Daniel; Yanes, Michelle – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2018
The growth of TWBE programs--mainly due to the surging interest of White English-speaking families--presents the field with myriad challenges and hopeful possibilities. Critical scholars in bilingual education point to an urgency to reissue Guadalupe Valdés's "cautionary note" due to a neoliberal path targeting TWBE programs, posing a…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Bilingual Education Programs, Ethnography, Difficulty Level