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Publication Date: 2017-Mar
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Combating Inequalities in Two-Way Language Immersion Programs: Toward Critical Consciousness in Bilingual Education Spaces
Cervantes-Soon, Claudia G.; Dorner, Lisa; Palmer, Deborah; Heiman, Dan; Schwerdtfeger, Rebecca; Choi, Jinmyung
Review of Research in Education, v41 n1 p403-427 Mar 2017
This chapter reviews critical areas of research on issues of equity/equality in the highly proclaimed and exponentially growing model of bilingual education: two-way immersion (TWI). There is increasing evidence that TWI programs are not living up to their ideal to provide equal access to educational opportunity for transnational emergent bilingual students. Through a synthesis of research from related fields, we will offer guidelines for program design that attend to equality and a framework for future research to push the field of bilingual education toward creating more equitable and integrated multilingual learning spaces. Specifically, this review leads to a proposal for adding a fourth goal for TWI programs: to develop "critical consciousness" through using critical pedagogies and humanizing research.
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Immersion Programs, Critical Theory, Educational Research, Discourse Analysis, Equal Education, Vocabulary, Educational Objectives, Teacher Background, Teacher Orientation, Teacher Education, Classroom Environment, Global Approach, Neoliberalism, Accountability, Monolingualism, Academic Standards, Consciousness Raising, Interdisciplinary Approach
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