Dismantling Linguistic Racism in the Multilingual Classroom: A Social Justice Orientation for Teacher Education

• In Event: Friday Roundtable Session 3:05 pm
  In Roundtable Session: Dismantling Linguistic Racism Across Diverse Contexts (Table 35)

Abstract

This presentation addresses issues concerning teacher educators searching for ways to imagine multilingual classrooms free of racial and linguistic injustices. Race, racism, and raciolinguistic ideologies continue negatively affecting the educational experiences of racialized multilingual learners whose linguistic practices are persistently stigmatized. However, new narratives can be created regarding educators' understandings of multilingualism, multilingual communities, families, and learners. I focus my efforts as an immigrant, racialized, and multilingual teacher educator to develop a sociolinguistic course that intentionally uses critical views of multilingualism, multilingual education, and correlated power relations as the core of goal of course development. Linguistitc, racial, and social justice are the core of the problematization shared with the audience.

Author

• Miriam Jorge, University of Missouri - St. Louis