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Summary:

"This book provides practical help for undoing the deficit perspective that is frequently applied to Latinx bilingual students. This deficit perspective limits educators from getting to know bilingual learners and has lasting effects on children's self-concept, socio-emotional growth and academic development. As emergent bilingual Latinx children become the majority in PK-12 schools, and as Latinx communities face increasing socio-political hostility, it is urgent that we shift to teaching practices that honor the knowledge students engage every day across different contexts. Schooling impacts how societal norms are reproduced, contested or reimagined, and the lessons, along with the pedagogical framework that we present in this book, can create that opportunity to fully embrace the ways we can connect with our students and have an impact beyond the classroom. This book offers lessons with a decolonized bilingual sustaining pedagogy approach: a culturally sustaining topic having to do with language practices, literacies, and power texts that show different ways we engage with language practices translanguaging (using all of one's linguistic repertoire, this includes different features of named languages such as Spanish and English) as the way bilingual students communicate, the way we teach, and the way we strive for social justice." -- Provided by publisher

Table of Contents:

• Centering the voices and experiences of bilingual Lantinx students
• Examining language practices and identities
• Telling our stories
• Knowing our histories to understand the present moment
• Taking an informed stance against injustice
• Sustaining the community across the year with poetry
• Being a reader, writer, researcher, and advocate with and for bilingual Lantinx students.

Author/Creator:

España, Carla , author

Contributors:

Herrera, Luz Yadira , author

García, Ofelia , writer of foreword

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

En comunidad: lessons for centering the voices and experiences of bilingual Latinx students [by España, C.]

Subjects:

Hispanic Americans — Education

Hispanic American students — Psychology

Education, Bilingual — United States

Culturally relevant pedagogy — United States

Hispanic Americans

Hispanic American students

Education, Bilingual

Culturally relevant pedagogy

United States

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

xix, 188 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Physical Characteristics:

illustration

Call Numbers:

LC2669 .E76 2020

ISBNs:

0325112487 (paperback)
9780325112480 (paperback)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2019047574

OCLC Numbers:

1129404557