Whiteness, Femininity, and Feelings, Oh, My! Collective Shifts Toward Translanguaging as White, Monolingual Women

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Abstract

This study asks: What emotions do White monolingual women have when implementing translanguaging pedagogies? Drawing upon critical whiteness studies and raciolinguistics, this study leverages post-intentional phenomenology and narrative inquiry to story the emotions of seven participants, all white, monolingual women teachers who engaged in a six-month professional development series about translanguaging pedagogies and literacy instruction. The seven women post-reflexed on their emotional experiences throughout the study, revealing emotions of disappointment, anxiety, guilt, hope, and inspiration. The author determined that White femininity, monolingualism, and emotions affect the implementation of translanguaging pedagogies and that collective learning is a tool to repair the harm done by monolingual instruction for multilingual learners.

Author

• Laurie Elisabet Hahn Ganser, University of Minnesota