Full Description
As the number of students designated as Multilingual Learners (MLs) continues to grow, educators must think critically about how best to support them. This hands-on guide introduces critical advocacy and explores how its effectiveness is tied to educators' critical awareness of themselves, their broader political contexts, and their daily school-based work with MLs.
The authors use a tree metaphor to represent the importance of roots (identities, beliefs, and ideologies); the trunk (core critical advocacy beliefs); branches (areas of critical advocacy action); and off-shoots and leaves (local action). Throughout, there are features such as Voices from the Field and Digging In, which invite readers to consider concepts from the text in their own lives, contexts, and practices. At the end of the book, the authors provide a Critical Advocacy Action Planning Tool to help readers plan for critical advocacy in their own context.
Whether you already see yourself as an advocate or are new to this work, this book will help you develop a critical advocacy stance and cultivate the practices and dispositions needed to engage in meaningful, sustainable, and effective advocacy with and for MLs in your school, classroom, and community.
Contents
Part I Establishing Roots and Strengthening the Trunk of Critical Advocacy 1. The Roots of Critical Advocacy 2. Ideologies and Beliefs about Advocacy 3. The Trunk of Critical Advocacy Part II Extending the Branches and Sprouting the Off-Shoots and Leaves of Critical Advocacy 4. The Branches, Off-Shoots, and Leaves of Critical Advocacy 5. Preparing for the Challenges of Critical Advocacy Part III Growing Meaningful, Sustainable, and Effective Critical Advocacy Plans 6. Connecting the Every-Day to Critical Advocacy Action 7. Putting it All Together: The Critical Advocacy Action Planning Tool
