Learning From Elementary Bilingual Latina Preservice Teachers: Reconceptualization of Civic Instruction in the Social Studies

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  In Roundtable Session: Teachers and Teacher Educators of Color (Table 26)

Abstract

This critical case study project focused on how five Latina bilingual preservice teachers reconceptualize citizenship for a more inclusive and robust understanding of citizenship in the teaching of the social studies. Viewed through the theoretical framing of cultural citizenship with an emphasis on reclaiming, as well as LatCrit, with an emphasis on naming systemic and institutional racism, the findings indicate Latine teachers' experiences can be affirming when understandings of power, identity and language, are viewed as inherent to civicness.

Authors

• Melissa Rojas Williams, University of North Texas

• Cinthia S. Salinas, University of Texas at Austin

• Adeli Ynostroza Ochoa, California State University - Bakersfield

• Maria E. Franquiz, University of Texas at Austin