- Browse
Search
Browse By Day
Browse By Time
Browse By Person
Browse By Room
Browse By Unit
Browse By Session Type
Browse Sessions by Descriptor
Browse Papers by Descriptor
Browse Sessions by Research Method
Browse Papers by Research Method
- Information Menu
Search Tips
Annual Meeting Housing and Travel
- Navigation and Settings Menu
Personal Schedule
Change Preferences / Time Zone
Sign In
- Social Media Menu
Facebook
X (Twitter)
Interrogating the Racialization of the Language of Science and the Science of Language
Sat, April 10, 10:40am to 12:10pm EDT (10:40am to 12:10pm EDT), Division G, Division G - Section 3 Paper and Symposium SessionsSession Type: Symposium
Abstract
This symposium explores the historical and ongoing racialization of language and science in schooling. The first papers interrogate the ‘science of language’ by tracing the racialization of Spanish language varieties, and by uncovering the interplay of educational and race psychology in positioning bilingual students as a pedagogical problem. The following papers investigate, first, the early 20th century racialization of bilingual students as allegedly distant from the ‘language of science,’ and second, how preservice science teachers today engage with discursive enactments and rejections of English-only policies. In conversation with raciolinguistics, historiography, and postcolonial science studies, the panel aims to denaturalize entangled categories of language, race, and human reason by exposing the historical contingency and fragility of our own disciplinary rules of perception.
Sub Unit
Chair
Papers
Whose Spanish in the Classroom? A Historical Analysis of Spanish Varieties Taught in U.S. Schools - Diego Xavier Roman, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Katherine Ward, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Cynthia Baeza, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Rebecca Sawyer, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Carlos Orozco, Verona Area School District
Colonial Legacies in Education: Historicizing the Bilingual Child of Color as an Educational Problem - Belén Hernando-Lloréns, University of Iowa
Experiments in Americanization: The Racialization of Students as Having Distinct Linguistic and Health Needs - Kathryn Lewkowicz Kirchgasler, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Cynthia Baeza, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Becoming Language Policy Makers in Science and Education - Caroline Thompson Spurgin, University of California - Merced; Sara E. Tolbert, Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha University of Canterbury; Mary Carol Combs, The University of Arizona