Unforgetting our Language Inheritance: Imagining Multilingual Teacher Education Futures in the Midwest

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Models of language-inclusive teacher education must reject two colonial paradigms: history’s colonial teacher education mandates (Austin, 2019; Mignolo & Walsh, 2018) and the current colonial yoke of language education (Macedo, 2019), while navigating their intersections within institutions of public education (Garcia, 2019). This symposium expands scholarship on preparing Latine pre-service teachers to work in particular contexts by leveraging cultural, experiential, and linguistic assets (Flores et al., 2011; Valenzuela, 2016), and focuses on multilingual instructional experiences for preservice teachers in higher education classrooms. Drawing from a multidimensional conceptual framework of “servingness” in Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) (García et al., 2019), we examine the indicators of serving within teacher preparation and establish the construction of “linguistic servingness” as our work’s unifying concept.

Sub Unit

• Division K - Teaching and Teacher Education / Division K - Section 09: Innovative Design and Models for Teaching and Teacher Education

Chair

• Enrique Aleman, Trinity University

Papers

• Linguistic Responsiveness and Teacher Education Futurities: A Context-based Case Study in Curricular and Programmatic Transformation - Victoria F. Trinder, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Creating Critical Language Educators through Cariño via the Higher Education Classroom - P. Zitlali Morales, University of Illinois at Chicago

• “Makes Me Feel Poderosa”: Conversando in Spanish in the Bilingual Teacher Education Classroom de la Ciudad de los Vientos - Jose Garcia, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Unforgetting Language Inheritance and Building Raiz Pedagogy Futures - Zitlaltoka Ramírez Huerta, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Elevating the Spanish Language Through a Linguistic Justice Leadership Coaching Approach - Sylvia Ibarra Delgado, University of Illinois at Chicago

Session Organizer

• P. Zitlali Morales, University of Illinois at Chicago

Discussant

• Angela Valenzuela, University of Texas at Austin