Calling for a Humanizing Turn in Language Teacher Education: Problematizing Content and Language Instruction

• In Event: In the Intersection of Language, Culture, Pedagogy, and Teacher Preparation

Abstract

The field of language teacher education has made significant strides in situating teaching and learning as socially mediated, and demonstrating that teachers’ and students’ co-constructed experiences are foundational aspects of this work. Yet, the scholarship on teacher education for multilingual populations is still missing a more critical lens on how the practices we prepare teachers to use may or may not support humanizing classroom experiences and equity-oriented outcomes for multilingual students, and how to move humanizing mindsets to action. We build upon our prior work regarding the opportunities and shortcomings of practice-based teacher education for preparing teachers of multilingual students, noting that further development of practices that have truly humanizing underpinnings and outcomes for multilingual students is still needed.

Authors

• Megan Madigan Peercy, University of Maryland
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• Francis John Troyan, The Ohio State University
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• Daisy Fredricks, Grand Valley State University
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• Melanie F. Hardy, University of Maryland
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