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Teacher Agency and “Pedagogies of Hope” for Bilingual Learners (in a Brave New World)

Sat, April 14, 2:15 to 3:45pm, Sheraton New York Times Square, Floor: Lower Level, Gramercy Room

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This panel brings together a group of papers that examine teachers as transformational change agents and leaders in bilingual public educational spaces. Each paper highlights the pedagogies they employ to dream, empower, engage, and change: teachers as policy-makers in their classrooms, as organizers/advocates for and with bilingual children and families, as active participants in larger professional communities creating new discourses and models for change, as language users and models for equitable and powerful interaction for bi(multi)lingual children. We theorize agency in a range of ways, deepening the field’s active use of the term. This panel brings together ideas for pedagogies of hope and change, to support equity and transformation for bilingual children and their teachers.

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