“We're a Familia”: Community Cultural Wealth as a Framework for Understanding Bilingual Education Research

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Sunday 11:40 am Four Seasons Ballroom 1
  In Roundtable Session: Bilingual Literacies, Critical Consciousness, and Community Cultural Wealth (Table 2)

Abstract

The challenges that bilingual education face are widely acknowledged, however, there is little scholarship that highlights the wisdom of elders in the field. To address this, we provide an oral history of the early phases of bilingual education research from the perspective of an emerita Latina scholar. We position oral history as a social justice methodology that challenges traditional ways of knowing and centers the role of relationality in research. Grounded in community cultural wealth, through oral history, we learned that scholars engaged in each element. In conversation with the conference theme, we make the case that this research serves to remedy and repair the current state of bilingual education in the United States.

Authors

• Cori Salmerón, Georgia State University

• Christian Valdez, Georgia State University