Navigating Possibilities and Challenges: Exploring Alignment in Preparing Teacher Candidates to Enact Linguistic Justice

• In Event: Roundtable Session VI
  In Roundtable Session: Leveraging Multiliteracies, Disciplinary Literacy, and Diverse Pedagogies

Abstract

This study investigates how a teacher education program prepares candidates to teach multilingual learners by examining alignment across coursework and field experiences. Using a qualitative case study approach, it explores the perspectives of teacher candidates, educators, field supervisors, and mentor teachers. Findings highlight ideological tensions and fragmented responsibilities, as well as opportunities and openness to greater coherence. The study underscores the need for systemic changes to better support equitable, linguistically just teacher preparation.

Author

• Katie Trautman, University of Texas at Austin