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Visualising Language Students and Teachers as Multilinguals: Advancing Social Justice in Education. Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
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Paula Kalaja, Editor; Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer, Editor – Multilingual Matters, 2024
This book fosters an awareness of multilingualism as lived or as subjectively experienced from the perspective of those involved in language education and teacher education. Responding to multilingual and visual turns, it widens the repertoire of methodologies dominating the field of language teacher education, from linguistic or verbal to visual.…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Multilingualism, Language Teachers, Visual Aids
Equity in Multilingual Schools and Communities: Celebrating the Contributions of Guadalupe Valdés
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Amanda K. Kibler Ed.; Aída Walqui Ed.; George C. Bunch Ed.; Christian J. Faltis Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2024
This book honors the impactful contributions of Guadalupe Valdés toward equity in multilingual schools and communities. As one of the first language education scholars to examine the vibrant language practices of bilingual users in the US Southwest, her work marked a departure from traditional foreign language approaches and sparked a movement…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Language Usage, Social Justice
Transcultural Pedagogies for Multilingual Classrooms: Responding to Changing Realities in Theory and Practice. New Perspectives on Language and Education
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Rahat Zaidi Ed.; Umit Boz Ed.; Eve Moreau Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2023
This book explores the ways in which transcultural pedagogies can support learning and literacies in critical, creative and socially just ways, highlighting research initiatives from across the globe. Each chapter provides a different and innovative perspective with respect to reimagining language and literacy pedagogies in conjunction with…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Multilingualism, Teaching Methods, Literacy Education
Intercultural Citizenship in Language Education: Teaching and Learning through Social Action. Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education
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Kong, Kaishan, Ed.; Spenader, Allison J., Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2023
This book explores the framework of Intercultural Citizenship within a variety of US teaching and learning contexts. The chapters, which comprise both conceptual pieces and empirical research studies, represent a wide variety of languages at levels ranging from beginner to advanced, from early elementary through higher education contexts. They…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Cultural Awareness
New Perspectives on Translanguaging and Education
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Paulsrud, BethAnne, Ed.; Rosén, Jenny, Ed.; Straszer, Boglárka, Ed.; Wedin, Åsa, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2017
This edited collection explores the immense potential of translanguaging in educational settings and highlights teachers and students negotiating language ideologies in their everyday communicative practices. It makes a significant contribution to scholarship on translanguaging and considers the need for pedagogy to reflect and embrace diversity.…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Bilingual Education, Preschool Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Social Justice Language Teacher Education
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Hawkins, Margaret R. – Multilingual Matters, 2011
Social justice language teacher education conceptualizes language teacher education as responding to social and societal inequities that result in unequal access to educational and life opportunities. In this volume authors articulate a global view of Social Justice Language Teacher Education, with authors from 7 countries offering a theorized…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Teacher Education, Language Teachers, Access to Education