Critical Performative Pedagogy: Emergent Bilingual Learners Challenge Local Immigration Issues

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Author
Author
Harman, Ruth; Varga-Dobai, Kinga
Journal
International Journal of Multicultural Education
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Resource Type
Journal
Acquisition Number
BE025246
Published Date
01-14-2015 2:55 PM
Published Year
2012
Number of Pages
17
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Abstract
Recent anti-immigration policies and practices in the Southeast of the United States have presented difficult challenges for newly arrived bilingual learners and their families. To validate student voices within this socio-political context, our school/university collaboration implemented an arts-based participatory approach to English Language Arts. Informed by critical discourse analysis, this paper investigates how, in the context of anti-immigration policies, a lack of social resources, and English-only instructional practices, our approach supported immigrant students in engaging agentively in social action-oriented literacy activities. Part of a larger ethnographic study, the paper focuses on a curricular project enacted in spring and fall 2010.
Topics
Research
Research
Newcomer Students
Immigrant Students
Federal Policy
English Language Arts
Culture
Bilingual Students