75.027 - "Post-Truth" Discourses in Rural Educational Contexts: English Learner Students, Families, and Teachers

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The current charged and divisive sociopolitical climate is a cacophony of voices, viewpoints, and experiences. However, many realities and experiences remain absent from conversations about educational policies and practices. This symposium addresses the education of rural English learners, their families, and their teachers, whose experiences and “truths” have been virtually absent from the broad landscape of educational research writ large. In their absence, little is known about how rurality intersects with English learners and how “post-truth” discourses affect teachers and students.This symposium of five qualitative studies aims to disentangle truths from post truths in the context of rural EL education. This symposium aims to bring voice and broaden views regarding the intersection of rurality and EL education in the US.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Bilingual Education Research

Chair

• Maria R. Coady, University of Florida

Papers

• Truth on This Side of the Pyrenees: Rural Teacher Narratives of Culture and Language - Patricia A DiCerbo, The George Washington University; Lottie L. Baker, The George Washington University

• Teacher Beliefs and the Context of Reception: Rural, Immigrant English Learner Students and Families - Maria R. Coady, University of Florida

• Rural Long-Term English Learners' (L-TELs') Funds of Knowledge, Teacher Attitudes, and School Success in Today's Political Climate - Holly H. Hansen-Thomas, Texas Woman's University; Elizabeth Hughes, Texas Woman's University

• Teacher Efficacy and Engagement: Child and Community Context Study - Claudia Peralta, Boise State University

• Humanizing Power of Counterstories in the Post-Truth Era: Teachers' Understandings of Rural English Learners - Paula Golombek, University of Florida; Aleksandra Olszewska, University of Florida

Discussant

• Maria E. Franquiz, University of Utah