Centering Multilingual Learners and Countering Raciolinguistic Ideologies in Teacher Education

Principles, Policies and Practices

By (author) Jeff Bale, Shakina Rajendram, Katie Brubacher, Mama Adobea Nii Owoo, Jennifer Burton, Wales Wong, Yiran Zhang, Elizabeth Jean Larson, Antoinette Gagné, Dr. Julie Kerekes

Publication date:

12 September 2023

Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Dimensions:

234x156mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781800414143

This 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.

Figures 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

This 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.