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32.052 - More Than White Interests: Dual-Language Immersion and Subverting Whiteness
Fri, April 28, 2:15 to 3:45pm, Grand Hyatt San Antonio, Floor: Fourth Floor, Crockett ASession Type: Symposium
Abstract
Dual language immersion (DLI) programs, where students are immersed in instruction in a language they are learning and one they already know, are increasing exponentially in the U.S. Recent research, however, has indicated these programs are designed almost exclusively with the goal of convincing white communities to support them and enroll, and thus serve, their white children (Cervantes-Soon, 2014; Palmer, 2010). This panel aims to illuminate this issue and bring remedies toward subverting the focus on serving white interests; the panel explicitly engages the gaping need of deeply engaging cultures, especially those representative of the languages being taught, toward improving historic and sociopolitical realities and understanding ways of knowing and being.
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Teaching and Learning Two Languages on the Borderlands: Unsettling Dual Language Immersion Through Theories in the Flesh/Land - Cinthya M. Saavedra, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Review of Inequalities in Two-Way Language Immersion Programs: A Cross-Disciplinary Analysis - Claudia G. Cervantes-Soon, The University of Texas at Austin; Lisa M. Dorner, University of Missouri - Columbia; Deborah K. Palmer, University of Colorado Boulder; Dan Heiman, University of North Texas
Racing to Prepare Bilingual Teachers Through "Alternative" Pathways: Broadening the Teaching Force or Shortchanging Students? - James Arthur Gambrell, Portland State University; Anita Bright, Portland State University
Parents and Struggles of Representation Toward Social Transformation Through Dual-Language Immersion in the Old South - G. Sue Kasun, Georgia State University; Jyoti Hanagud Kaneria