Full Description
This collection celebrates the work of Paulo Freire by assembling transnational perspectives on Freirean-based educational models that reconsider and reimagine language and literacy instruction, especially for multilingual learners. Offering an international and comparative overview of Freire's theories and critical pedagogies in relation to multilingualism, this volume presents innovative analyses and applications of theories and methods and features case studies in public schools, after-school and community literacy programs, and grassroots activism. Part I features chapters that expand on Freire's concepts and ideas, including critical literacies, critical consciousness, and liberatory teaching principles. Part II features chapters that discuss empirical analyses from applied research studies that draw from these philosophical concepts, making important connections to key topics on supporting students, curriculum development, and teaching.
Ideal for students and scholars in language education, bilingual/multilingual methods, and sociology of education, the volume informs teacher knowledge and practice. In offering alternative paradigms to our dominant, homogenized monolingual status quo, the chapters present a shared vision of what multilingual literacy can offer students and how it can transform educational spaces into sites of imagination, creativity, and hope.
Contents
Foreword: "The People" Lost in Translation
Samuel Rocha
From Angicos to the World: Paulo Freire and the Task of Emancipatory Multilingual Education
Sandro R. Barros and Luciana C. de Oliveira
Part I: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches
Critical Biliteracies: The Mutually Reinforcing Endeavors of Freirean Criticality and Bilingualism
Chris K. Chang-Bacon and Soria E. Colomer
The Critical Space Between: Weaving Freirean and Sociocultural Pedagogies
Brandon J. Sherman and Annela Teemant
Transforming Privilege: The Four R's of Pedagogical Possibilities
Adam Howard, Patrick Dickert, Wallace Tucker, and Sam Jefferson
Reading the World and Conscientização: Teaching about Multilingualism for Social Justice for Multilingual Learners
Heather Linville
Part II: Empirical Analyses
Involvement and Authenticity: Transforming Literacy Curricula for Marshallese Students through Community-Based Writing Projects
Anny Fritzen Case, Marcy Ray Dodd, and Gina Mikel Petrie
Learning English as an Additional Language from Children's Points of View in a Public School in Brazil: A Freirean Perspective
Andrea da Silva Marques Ribeiro and Jessica F. Cruz
Critical Educulturalism in the Borderlands: Exploring Social Positionality and the Dialogic Processes of Culture Circles
Kelly Metz-Matthews and Michele McConnell
Kindergarteners as Co-constructors of an Equitable Learning Community in a Dual-Language Class: A Freirean Analysis
Tatiana M. Cevallos and Rosa M. Floyd
(Re)Turning to Freirean-Philosophy in Preparing Content Teachers to Work with Multilingual Students
Kara Mitchell Viesca, Peiwen Wang, Brandon Heinz, and Alexa Yunes
Digital Storytelling as a Freirean-Based Pedagogy with Refugee-Background Youth
Carrie Symons and Kasun Gajasinghe
Ignoramuses and Sages: Using Freirean Concepts to Co-construct Socially Just Initial Teacher Education Practices
Gabriel Díaz Maggioli
Planting Seeds: Pre-Service Teachers Explore the Legacies of Projeto Axé and Projeto Semear
Amanda Montes and Miguel Fernández Álvarez
Rereading Learning, Schooling, and Race: Reflecting on Dialogical Language Teacher Preparation Through Participatory Action Research
Amanda J. Swearingen, Catherine McCarthy, Autumn E. Sanders, and Taylor M. Drinkman
Problematização and Poesis: Making Problems with Freire and Someone Else's Syllabus
Cori McKenzie
Bridging Multimodality and Criticality to Language Education with a Twist from the Global South: Multimodal Critical Consciousness as Multimodal Conscientização
Raúl Alberto Mora, Andrés Tobón-Gallego, Maria Camila Mejía-Vélez, and Elizabeth (Effy) Agudelo
Afterword by Valdir Borges
