Postura Activista: Examining One Bilingual Teacher's Activism and Commitment to the Community She Serves

• In Event: Moscone Center West Roundtable Session 13
  In Roundtable Session: Activism and Teacher Leadership for Immigrant Families and Communities

Abstract

This paper explores how one bilingual teacher’s activism and commitment to the community she serves influenced how the teacher and her students engaged in a critical examination of language and issues around immigration. Drawing on social and cultural perspectives of language and literacy, activism is positioned as a literacy and as such a transformative act. The findings from this study contribute to scholarship centered on bilingual teacher activists and their work in the classroom to support emergent bilinguals as well as their activist work outside of the classroom.

Author

• Doris Villarreal, University of Missouri-St. Louis