Extending Learning Opportunities of Preservice Teachers for English-Language Learners: Translocal Assemblage in Refugee-Background Neighborhoods

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  In Roundtable Session: Intersections of Joy, Multilingualism, and Diversity in Teacher Education (Table 37)

Abstract

Grounded in the notions of translocality, geosemiotic assemblage, and situated pedagogies, this ethnographic and community-based participatory research project engenders a commitment to engaging preservice teachers into translocal learning about the two refugee-background neighborhoods via the observations, photovoice visual texts, and interviews with refugee arrivals. This study explores how the preservice teachers’ community experiences fostered a critical, reflective, and translocal understanding of English language learners (ELLs) and classroom pedagogy. This study indicates that a translocal approach to teacher education can develop a greater inclusion of English language learners’ lived experiences and knowledge in pedagogy and curriculum.

Author

• Xia Chao, Duquesne University