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21.054 - "Beyond the Methods Fetish" at 25: Preparing Teachers of Emergent Bilinguals

Fri, April 5, 4:20 to 5:50pm, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Floor: 200 Level, Room 206A

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Twenty-five years ago, Bartolomé asserted that teacher education was too heavily focused on finding the “right methods” for teaching historically oppressed students, and that this emphasis obscured asymmetrical power relations and deficit views of minority learners. Arguing for a “humanizing pedagogy,” Bartolomé encouraged teacher educators to teach pedagogies that “engaged students as knowers and active participants in their own learning” (p. 173). Drawing on tensions between mechanistic and humanizing approaches to teaching, we grapple with how “core practices” and “best practices” frameworks (e.g., McDonald, Kazemi, & Kavanagh, 2013) should (not) be taken up in the teaching of emergent bilinguals (EBs), and hold up our specific pedagogical approaches for scrutiny to explore whether we have moved in a humanizing direction.

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