Imagining Futurities in Bi/Multilingual Education Through Counter-Stories From Racialized and Minoritized Parents

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium explores counterstories of family engagement in bi/multilingual education articulated by racialized and minoritized families to imagine and construct equitable futurities for their children and themselves. In addressing this year’s conference theme of “Dismantling Racial Injustice and Constructing Educational Possibilities”, the symposium focuses on justice for racialized families by centering their lived experiences and realities to challenge a majoritarian narrative that all families and children have equitable access bi/multilingual schooling. The collective work represents diverse geographical contexts and highlights counterstories from minoritized parents of different linguistic and racial backgrounds. The papers report on the interactions of parents with different language education program models, and have implications for equitable family engagement in bi/multilingual education.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Bilingual Education Research

Chairs

• Yalda M. Kaveh, Arizona State University

• Cory Alan Buckband, Arizona State University

Papers

• Access and Advocacy for Emergent Multilingual Children Labeled as Disabled: One Latinx Mother’s Counter-Story - Cory Alan Buckband, Arizona State University

• Latina Mothers’ Refusals of School-Sanctioned Family Engagement in Bilingual Programs Within Anti-Bilingual Education States - Jasmine Alvarado, Brandeis University; Yalda M. Kaveh, Arizona State University

• Contesting Black Exclusion in Dual Language Bilingual Education - Sabrina L. Wesley-Nero, Georgetown University

• The Counter-Story of a Chinese Immigrant Mother Against the Neoliberal Framing of Dual Language Education - Wenyang Sun, University of Utah; Xinxin Wang, Fudan University

Discussant

• Patricia Baquedano-Lopez, University of California - Berkeley