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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
Speaking "Educación" in Spanish: Linguistic and Professional Development in a Bilingual Teacher Education Program in the US-Mexico Borderlands
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Caldas, Blanca; Palmer, Deborah; Schwedhelm, María – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2019
This case study examines the pedagogical measures taken for Spanish development for a group of bilingual preservice teachers in a university-based teacher education program in Texas. Classroom language policies were developed collaboratively and deliberately throughout the semester, which included discussion and negotiation between instructor and…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Bilingual Teachers, Code Switching (Language), Spanish
Translanguaging Pedagogies for Positive Identities in Two-Way Dual Language Bilingual Education
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García-Mateus, Suzanne; Palmer, Deborah – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2017
Research suggests that identity matters for school success and that language and identity are powerfully intertwined. A monolingual solitudes understanding of bilingualism undermines children's bilingual identities, yet in most bilingual education classrooms, academic instruction is segregated by language and children are encouraged to engage in…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction