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15.032 - Democratizing Evidence by Documenting the Gentrification of Dual-Language Education: Language Allocation, Metaphors, Images, and Teachers' Perspectives

Fri, April 5, 12:00 to 2:00pm, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Floor: 200 Level, Room 201F

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Several scholars within dual language education (DL) have begun to study a gentrification trend in which DL programs have often begun to cater less to the traditional constituency of language minoritized communities and more to a growing influx of monolingual students and families with more privilege. This symposium brings together scholars who highlight discourses, practices and policies in the field that make either intended or unintended contributions to this trend. The first paper clarifies the comparison being made to urban neighborhood politics, and the last speaks to the under-examined aspect of language allocation. In between are three papers that analyze data on DL educators’ discourses in gentrifying contexts and one that analyzes images in national media coverage of DL.

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