Publication Date

5-1-2020

Document Type

Contribution to a Book

Publication Title

Handbook of Research on Diversity and Social Justice in Higher Education

Editor

Jared Keengwe

DOI

10.4018/978-1-7998-5268-1.ch012

First Page

202

Last Page

221

Abstract

Bilingual students and teachers in the U.S. live in a context where linguistic and ethnic minorities are associated with inferiority. Preparing bilingual teachers of color without explicit attention to issues of race, language, and power would maintain and feed the vicious cycle of linguistic hegemony. With the goal of preparing critically conscious future bilingual teachers equipped to enact culturally sustaining pedagogy (CSP), the authors centered issues of race, language, and power alongside bilingual instructional methodology and theories of bilingualism in their respective bilingual teacher preparation programs. Drawing on bilingual teacher preparation course material, student reflections, and bilingual teacher candidate interviews, they illustrate how two bilingual teacher preparation programs take two distinct approaches to developing bilingual teachers' critical consciousness and CSP practices. In this way, they outline how bilingual teacher educators can prepare and support bilingual teachers to enact CSP with their K-12 students.

Comments

This is the Version of Record, and has been used with the permission of IGI Global, under their Fair Use Policy.

Department

Teacher Education

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