Immersion as a Lifeway: the Cultural Sustainment and Humanization of Mandarin Dual Language Immersion Teachers
Title | Immersion as a Lifeway: the Cultural Sustainment and Humanization of Mandarin Dual Language Immersion Teachers PDF eBook |
Author | Helen Chan Hill |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023 |
Genre | Education, Bilingual |
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The U.S. is growing in its recognition of the value of multilingualism, and is rapidly expanding educational programs, such as dual language immersion (DLI), to that end (Singleton et al., 2018). However, the historical socio-political, regulatory, and cultural contexts have led to a current climate that may not demonstrate equivalent value of its multilingual teachers (Flores & Rosa, 2015). With a concerning teacher shortage that is exacerbated for teachers of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds (MacIntyre et al., 2019), it is critical to understand factors that impact the wellbeing and satisfaction of such teachers in the U.S. educational system. In particular, with the complexities of globalization (Schaeffer, 2009) and a growing anti-Asian backlash (Chen et al., 2020), this study is concerned with the possible impact on teachers in programs such as Mandarin DLI, coveted for its language as a resource (M. Heller, 2003), as there is great potential for their workplace experience to be driven by transactional exchanges, rather than the desired transformative interaction in such a commodified climate. Therefore, using a qualitative phenomenological approach, this study focuses on the professional lived experiences of Mandarin language teachers within the ecological system (Bronfenbrenner, 1977) of their uniquely dual language immersion environment. Using the lenses of humanization (Freire, 1970; Todres et al., 2009) and cultural sustainment (Paris, 2012; Paris & Alim, 2017), this study examines the connection between such interactions and the resulting value expressed by the teachers. Thirteen Mandarin dual language immersion teachers participated in semi- structured interviews that contributed to rich and thick descriptive findings. The teachers’ insight led to implications regarding the systemic features in schools that can create culturally sustaining lifeways, develop humanizing leadership, and cultivate school communities as places of love that can collectively support the wellbeing and retention of diverse teachers.
Staying with the Trouble
Title | Staying with the Trouble PDF eBook |
Author | Donna J. Haraway |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2016-08-25 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0822373785 |
In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She eschews referring to our current epoch as the Anthropocene, preferring to conceptualize it as what she calls the Chthulucene, as it more aptly and fully describes our epoch as one in which the human and nonhuman are inextricably linked in tentacular practices. The Chthulucene, Haraway explains, requires sym-poiesis, or making-with, rather than auto-poiesis, or self-making. Learning to stay with the trouble of living and dying together on a damaged earth will prove more conducive to the kind of thinking that would provide the means to building more livable futures. Theoretically and methodologically driven by the signifier SF—string figures, science fact, science fiction, speculative feminism, speculative fabulation, so far—Staying with the Trouble further cements Haraway's reputation as one of the most daring and original thinkers of our time.
Funding Bodies
Title | Funding Bodies PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Wilbur |
Publisher | Wesleyan University Press |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2021-10-20 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0819580538 |
"A cultural and structural analysis of the NEA's dance funding from its inception through the early 2000s. Wilbur studies how people in power engineer and translate institutional norms of arts recognition within dance, performance, and arts policy disclosure"--
They Aren't, Until I Call Them
Title | They Aren't, Until I Call Them PDF eBook |
Author | Enikő Bollobás |
Publisher | Peter Lang |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9783631589823 |
The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is available in the internet at http://dnb.d-nb.de.
Living Your Dying
Title | Living Your Dying PDF eBook |
Author | Stanley Keleman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780394487878 |
"This book is about dying, not about death. We are always dying a big, always giving things up, always having things taken away. Is there a person alive who isn't really curious about what dying is for them? Is there a person alive who wouldn't like to go to their dying full of excitement, without fear and without morbidity? This books tells you how." -- Front cover.
The Oxford Handbook of Language and Society
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Language and Society PDF eBook |
Author | Ofelia García |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 585 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0190212896 |
Contributors explore a range of sociolinguistic topics, including language variation, language ideologies, bi/multilingualism, language policy, linguistic landscapes, and multimodality. Each chapter provides a critical overview of the limitations of modernist positivist perspectives, replacing them with novel, up-to-date ways of theorizing and researching. [Publisher]
A Metaphoric Mind
Title | A Metaphoric Mind PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph E. Couture |
Publisher | Athabasca University Press |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1926836529 |
"Dr. Joe challenges the reader to examine both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal approaches to the world and demonstrates the differences between Indigenous knowledge and Western thought."--Ed Buller.