ABSTRACT
This book features case studies that address dual language bilingual education (DLBE) programs, which offer content instruction in two languages to help youth develop fluent bilingualism/biliteracy, high academic achievement, and sociocultural competence. While increasingly popular, the DLBE model is a framework that comes with unique hurdles and challenges.
Applying a pioneering critical consciousness approach, the volume provides readers with narratives, awareness, and tools to support culturally and linguistically diverse students and their families. Organized around four major areas—policy, leadership, family and community engagement, teaching and teacher learning—the volume’s case studies bring together stories from policymakers, educational leaders, family and community members, and teachers. The case studies spotlight examples in which power imbalances have been identified and shifted through critically conscious actions and offer insight into how to ensure all DLBE programs are nurturing, empowering, multilingual environments for all students, particularly racialized, immigrant, and transnational students. Accessible and varied, the case studies address important topics such as anti-Black racism, digital access, disability, school-district relations, working with undocumented families, and more. Each chapter includes a case narrative, teaching notes, discussion questions, and/or teaching activities to support stakeholders who wish to develop and enact equity in their DLBE policies, classrooms, and professional development.
A key resource for supporting student needs and transformative inquiry in the classroom, this book is ideal for graduate students, professors, leaders, educators, and other stakeholders in bilingual education and language education.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section Section I|56 pages
Policy and Critical Consciousness
chapter 2|9 pages
Revolisyon an ap Kontinye
chapter 3|8 pages
“We Can Change the Academic Trajectory of Our Children in a Snap”
chapter 4|8 pages
Centering Immigrant Voices and Experiences in a Dual Language Bilingual School
chapter 5|12 pages
“Shifting Lenses Instead of Always Grinding Forward”
section Section II|54 pages
Leadership and Critical Consciousness
chapter 8|10 pages
The Power of Plática
chapter 10|8 pages
Black and Bilingual
chapter 11|9 pages
Vietnamese Dual Language Immersion
chapter 12|8 pages
De La Lucha a La Victoria
section Section III|47 pages
Families, Communities, and Critical Consciousness
chapter 13|8 pages
Fostering Critical Consciousness with Immigrant Families
chapter 15|9 pages
When Life Gives You Lemons
section Section IV|69 pages
Teaching, Teacher Learning, and Critical Consciousness