Escuchando con Humildad: Dialogic Interactions Between Immigrant Parents and Preservice Teachers

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Abstract

Immigrant families are often chided for their “absence” in their children’s learning and lack of “parental engagement”. As teacher educators, we aim to disrupt these negative discourses by designing a learning experience, for bilingual and ESL pre-service teachers (BEPST), to support communication and partnership with culturally and linguistically diverse immigrant families.

Authors

• Kiyomi Sánchez-Suzuki Colegrove, Texas State University

• Christian Ellen Zuniga, University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley