AERA Annual Meeting: Transdisciplinary Perspectives for Critically Analyzing Bilingual Education Systems

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Transdisciplinary Perspectives for Critically Analyzing Bilingual Education Systems

Sat, April 11, 1:45 to 3:15pm PDT (1:45 to 3:15pm PDT), Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 309

Session Type: Symposium

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Despite the considerable promise of promoting academic achievement, bilingualism, and biliteracy, many challenges to implementing equitable bilingual programs persist. Limited prior scholarship has addressed the ways that district- and state-level policies and practices influence bilingual program implementation at the school and classroom level. Utilizing an array of conceptual and methodological orientations, we describe how we can “unforget the past” through historically situating our bilingual education contexts and propose directions forward for "imagining different futures" for systems and students. This symposium critically examines bilingual education programs and policies across four states with the aim of illuminating analytical and conceptual tools for developing systems-level understandings and identifying productive pathways forward to cultivate and sustain more equitable bilingual learning spaces.

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