Description
Book SynopsisThis 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.
Trade ReviewThis book provides an essential and timely contribution to the field of multilingual teacher education. Drawing on the concept of raciolinguicized subjectivities and situated within the sociopolitical and policy shifts of Ontario, Canada, this study of a teacher education program has much to offer to researchers and teacher educators. * Manka Varghese, University of Washington, USA *
An example of carefully, collaboratively conducted critical research, this book is realistic as well as encouraging, precise as well as broad, situated as well as expansive, and formulated into an accessible, yet deeply intellectual narrative that is poised to move our field toward truly disrupting the inequitable, racist, and linguistic status quo. A must-read for every current and future teacher educator. * Kara Mitchell Viesca, University of Nebraska Lincoln, USA *
Based on an extensive empirical study in Ontario, Canada, this impressive work provides sound insights into how racial structures inscribed in official language policies are reflected in teacher education. The conclusion for practicians to counter racism by putting multilingual learners and their experiences with language and learning right at the center of pedagogic moves is most convincing. * Yasemin Karakaşoğlu, University of Bremen, Germany *
Table of ContentsFigures and Tables
Acronyms
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Chapter 1. Jeff Bale and Antoinette Gagné: Contradictions of Stability and Change
Chapter 2. Jeff Bale, Shakina Rajendram, Mama Adobea Nii Owoo, Katie Brubacher and Wales Wong: The Research Design and the People Behind it
Chapter 3. Jeff Bale: Framing the Study
Chapter 4. Shakina Rajendram, Mama Adobea Nii Owoo, Katie Brubacher, Wales Wong, Jennifer Burton and Jeff Bale: Who are Multilingual Learners in Ontario Imagined to Be?
Chapter 5. Shakina Rajendram, Mama Adobea Nii Owoo, Yiran Zhang, Julie Kerekes and Jeff Bale: Preparing Teacher Candidates to Support Multilingual Learners: Insights from the Field
Chapter 6. Jeff Bale, Katie Brubacher, Elizabeth Jean Larson and Yiran Zhang: STEPing into Deficit Thinking
Chapter 7. Jeff Bale, Shakina Rajendram, Katie Brubacher, Jennifer Burton and Wales Wong: (Un-)Learning Translanguaging Pedagogies
Chapter 8. Jeff Bale, Shakina Rajendram, Antoinette Gagné, Katie Brubacher, Wales Wong and Jennifer Burton: Practices and Principles of Change
Elizabeth Jean Larson: Appendix: Overview of the PeCK-LIT Test and Additional Analyses
