Transformative Translanguaging Espacios
Latinx Students and their Teachers Rompiendo Fronteras sin Miedo
Ofelia García editor Maite T Sánchez editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Multilingual Matters
Published:15th Nov '21
£34.95
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First book to focus specifically on how language and race operate in the education of a marginalised and diverse group of students
This book shows the transformative power of placing translanguaging at the center of teaching and learning. It shows how the centering of racialized Latinx bilingual students, including their knowledge systems and cultural and linguistic practices, transforms the monolingual-white supremacy ideology of many educational spaces.
This book contributes to the understanding of the transformative power of incorporating translanguaging, the dynamic language practices of bi/multilingual communities, in the schooling of US Latinx children and youth. It showcases instructional spaces in US education where Latinx children’s and youths’ translanguaging is at the center of their teaching and learning. By centering racialized Latinx bilingual students, including their knowledge systems and cultural and linguistic practices, it transforms the monolingual-white supremacy ideology of many educational spaces. In so doing, racialized bilingual Latinx subjectivities are potentially transformed, as students learn to understand processes of colonization and domination that have robbed them of opportunities to use their entire semiotic repertoire in learning. The book makes a strong theoretical contribution to the field, putting decolonial, post-structuralist understandings of language and bilingualism alongside critical race theory and critical pedagogy.
This important and inspirational volume brings hope and justice to K-12 schools. It deepens the understanding of translanguaging pedagogies towards transformative translanguaging spaces for bilingual students. The book rompe fronteras y muros sin miedo and stays true to the academic, linguistic, and political origins and purposes of the translanguaging movement in the field. * Juan A. Freire, Brigham Young University, USA *
Transformative Translanguaging Espacios reminds us that Latinx communities must insist on politicizing our translanguaging practices on our own terms, and reject decades of politicization experienced via reductive and harmful language policies and practices. The authors – scholars and maestrxs – inspire us to move forward with the political and radical spirit of translanguaging scholarship toward consequential learning possibilities, y sin miedo! * Danny C. Martinez University of California, Davis, USA *
A counternarrative to dominant conceptualizations of bilingualism that pathologize the complex and dynamic language practices of racialized bi/multilingual communities, Transformative Translanguaging Espacios centers the perspective of language as performed by diverse Latinx bilingual students and their teachers. The editors and authors clearly and cogently articulate the affordances of translanguaging pedagogy as a transformative tool for anti-racist work in education in this accessible, engaging, and thought-provoking volume. * Mileidis Gort, University of Colorado Boulder, USA *
This edited volume helps hone translanguaging as a theory of language use by documenting and delineating its transformative potential. Furthermore, it makes an important contribution to teaching practice by looking at how translanguaging pedagogies can create and sustain humanizing and just classrooms.
-- Mark B. Pacheco, University of Florida, USA * Language and Education, 2022 *...this is an excellent state-of-the-art edition that synergizes the various works of passionate and dedicated scholars, teachers, and school administrators. I highly recommend this book to scholars in Bilingual Education, doctoral students, bilingual educators, and, most importantly, school administrators across the country.
-- Kevin Perez, New York University, USA * Journal of Language, Identity & Education, 2022 *ISBN: 9781788926041
Dimensions: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
Weight: 508g
336 pages