"Imaginando los Futuros Educativos" of Latino Emergent Bilinguals: Toward Expansive Educational Discourse, Policy, and Practice

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session is designed to engage participants and audience in dialogue where they critically explore educational discourses and their own commitments to reimagining bilingual educational programs, as well as research on and by Latino communities. Presenters reflect upon that responsibility to educate young multilingual, multiliterate, and multicultural learners, in four papers that, in dialogue, push towards rich policy and practices in bilingual education contexts. A range of research in Latino communities, many impacted by high concentrations of poverty and segregation, highlights contemporary challenges and imagined possibilities within schools and classrooms practices as an entrance point into discussion of issues and questions related to social contexts of learning, languaging, participation in literacies, and an expansion of educational discourse, policy, and practice.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Bilingual Education Research

Chair

• Patricia Velasco, Queens College - CUNY

Papers

• What Counts as Bilingual Education Policy? Developing a Materialist Antiracist Approach to Bilingual Education Activism - Nelson Flores, University of Pennsylvania

• Structures in Suburban Schools That Create and Sustain Segregated Conditions for Emergent Bilinguals - Zoila Tazi, Mercy College

• Latino Emergent Bilinguals Becoming Multiliterate: Practices to Promote Participation in Dual Language Programs - Lorraine Theresa Falchi, Teachers College, Columbia University

• A Case Study of Instructional Change at a Segregated, Underfunded Suburban School - Laura Ascenzi Moreno, Brooklyn College - CUNY

Discussant

• Angelica Infante-Green, New York State Education Department