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Creando Senderos en Comunidad: Working Towards Lifelong Language Learning with Latine Communities
Sun, April 12, 7:45 to 9:15am PDT (7:45 to 9:15am PDT), Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 308ASession Type: Symposium
Abstract
This symposium highlights research in Illinois exploring how multilingualism is cultivated within diverse Latine communities through parent engagement, teacher development, higher education, and community spaces. Each paper challenges Eurocentric paradigms by centering cultural intuition and conducting research with, not on, our communities. Methodologies such as testimonio, plática, and critical action research illuminate systemic gaps in teacher preparation and bilingual education program access for Latine communities. Papers explore secondary dual language instruction, Latina teacher advocacy, heritage speakers in college, parent perspectives on language programs, and queer Latine educators in community spaces. Collectively, these studies foreground lived experiences to reimagine educational research through a socially just lens.
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Reclaiming Language Histories for Justice: Preparing Latinx Educators for Secondary Dual Language Bilingual Education - Massiel Zaragoza, University of Illinois at Chicago
A Future That Contrasts the Past: Latina Teachers Called to Dual Language Bilingual Education - Melizabeth Santos, Dominican University
Power Dynamics of Belonging and Rejection at School for Spanish Heritage Speakers - Lidia Aguilera, University of Illinois at Chicago
Platicando con Padres de Nuestra Comunidad: Insights into Latine Parents’ Language Goals - Nancy Domínguez-Fret, Northern Illinois University; Yaniz Rodríguez, Northern Illinois University; Ramona Alcalá, University of Illinois at Chicago; Megan Tzeitel Marshall, University of Chicago; P. Zitlali Morales, University of Illinois at Chicago
¿Cómo Se Dice Queer en Spanish? How Queer Chicanx Educators Facilitate Affirming Bilingual Queer Curriculums - Jodi Aguilar, University of Illinois at Chicago