Toward Remedy and Repair in Multilingual Education: Critical Participatory Inquiries With Emergent Bilinguals and Families

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium shares community-based, critical participatory inquiries that aimed toward equity and transformation in multilingual education contexts by engaging with community members as authors of four research-practice partnerships. Using English, Spanish, and Mandarin, the presentations will describe working toward remedy and repair with adolescent newcomers from Guatemala in rural Missouri, bilingual high school students in Colorado, Latina immigrant moms in metropolitan Missouri, and teachers of racialized immigrant families from Latin America and Myanmar in Indiana. The discussion will center on the challenges and opportunities in using collaborative, community-based methods to fight oppression and produce radical transformation in multilingual spaces in the U.S., from PK-12 schools and community organizations, to immigrant/transnational families.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Bilingual Education Research

Chair

• Lisa M. Dorner, University of Missouri

Papers

• Repairing U.S. High Schools With and For Recently-Arrived Guatemalan Adolescents in Rural Missouri - Lisa M. Dorner, University of Missouri; Sophia Piral Lee, University of Missouri; Cynthia Chasteen, University of Missouri

• Youth Participatory Action Research in Language Policy as a Site of Repair for Bilingual Youth - Laura Meinzen, University of Colorado - Boulder; Maya Milán, University of Colorado - Boulder; Deborah K. Palmer, University of Colorado - Boulder; Michelle Renée Valladares, University of Colorado - Boulder

• Latina Immigrant Moms’ Liderazgo in their Children’s Early Bilingual Development Through a Community Research-Practice Partnership - Sophia Piral Lee, University of Missouri

• Decolonial Combing as Partnership and Praxis - Rong Zhang, Appalachian State University; Annie Garcia, Purdue University; Alejandro Baquero-Sierra, Purdue University; Trish Morita-Mullaney, Purdue University

Discussant

• Yalda M. Kaveh, Arizona State University