Radically Inclusive Teaching With Newcomer and Emergent Plurilingual Students: Braving Up

by Alison G. Dover, Fernando (Ferran) Rodríguez-Valls, Ofelia García (Foreword)

Learn how to enact curricular, pedagogical, and policy shifts that nourish students’ linguistic repertoires, redefine teaching and learning as reciprocal endeavors, promote student-to-student interactions that help newcomers feel less isolated, and create opportunities for students to experiment with language in both academic and informal settings. Drawing on their experience working with hundreds of educators and thousands of students in linguistically diverse school settings (grades 7–12), the authors challenge readers to engage in critical, collective action as they transform their approach to languaging, agency, and authority in the classroom. Ideas and strategies come alive through classroom vignettes, student stories, and samples of student poetry, prose, and art―as well as examples of linguistically affirming approaches to online teaching. The book is an enlightening professional conversation that represents the importance and impact of multicultural and culturally responsive education that ultimately leads to linguistically inclusive education for newcomers and other language learners. Book

176 pages, Paperback

Published April 1, 2022

Reviews

[Marilee C-R · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well researched, linguistically sustaining ideas for implementing after school programs for multilingual learners. I’m impressed with the create examples and specific stories of student engagement and growth.

[Dr. Jeff · Rating 5 out of 5]

I use this text in my course with pre-service students and it is full of not only very practical teaching strategies, but an approach that also builds community, amplifies student voice, and strengthens a sense of agency and civic action. Many of my student teachers were able to immediately apply what they learned to their own classes that same week.