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The Constitution Of Bilingual/Esl Education As A Disciplinary Practice: Genealogical Explorations, Jaime Grinberg, Elizabeth R. Saavedra

Department of Educational Foundations Scholarship and Creative Works

This article provides a cultural and political critique of the constitution of bilingual/English-as-a-second-language (ESL) education as a disciplinary practice in the case of New Mexico. Using genealogy and postcolonial, post-structural, and critical frameworks, this article claims that the directions advanced by the Chicano/Chicana movement were lost. Instead, what emerged was a field that nurtured a mix of symbolic colonization and docilization through the construction of a settlement that controls thought and behavior, perpetuating misrecognition in a Bourdieuian sense. Illusion, collusion, and delusion have enabled the dominance of psycholinguistic approaches. Problematizing the constitution of bilingual/ESL education within a cultural and political …

Volume 15, No. 2

Thinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children

Green, Lena. “Never mind if it’s right or wrong, just think! Investigating the potential of Philosophy for Children with primary teachers in South Africa.” 12-­20.

Heesen, Berrie. “Stories for Thinking.” 2­-11.

Matthews, Gareth B. “Thinking in Stories: Rotten Island by William Steig.” 1.

Murris, Karin. “The role of the facilitator in philosophical inquiry.” 40-­46.

Saenz, Carmen Lopez. “The child, the school and philosophy: a phenomenological reflection.” 34­-39.

Sewald, Kristin. “4th and 5th graders discuss knowing.” 47-­48.

Turgeon, Wendy. “The mirror of aesthetic education: philosophy looks at art and art at philosophy.” 21­-31.

Volume 15, No. 3

Thinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children

Curnow, Trevor. “The Value of Dialogue.” 36-­40.

Daniel, Marie­-France. “Audrey­Ann’s Tales.” 26­-32.

Daniel, Marie­-France and Ann-­Marie Michel. “Learning to think and to Speak: An Account of an Experiment Involving Children Aged 3 to 5 in France and Quebec.” 17­25.

Lushyn, Pavel and Kennedy, David. “The Psychodynamics of Community of Inquiry and Educational Reform: A Cross­Cultural Perspective.” 9­-16.

Matthews, Gareth B. “Thinking in Stories: Many Moons by James Thurber.” 1.

Mohr-­Lone, Jana. “5th graders discuss robotics.” 46-­47.

Scolnicov, Samuel. “The Problematic Community of Inquiry: The Socrates and Kant of Lipman and Dewey.” 41­-45.

Sheets­-Johnston, Maxine. “Dance Improvisation: A Paradigm of Thinking …