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Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education

Fordham University

2019

Ofelia

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Ofelia García And The Cuny-Nysieb Community: Symbiosis In Furthering Translanguaging Pedagogy And Practice, Maite T. Sánchez, Kate Menken Oct 2019

Ofelia García And The Cuny-Nysieb Community: Symbiosis In Furthering Translanguaging Pedagogy And Practice, Maite T. Sánchez, Kate Menken

Journal of Multilingual Education Research

Ofelia García’s scholarship on dynamic bilingualism and translanguaging has been at the core of CUNY-NYSIEB. At the same time, CUNY-NYSIEB’s work in schools has furthered her own scholarship on translanguaging pedagogy and that of the field as a whole. It is this rich symbiosis that we describe in this article.


Top Ten Lessons Learned From Ofelia García: Researching, Teaching And Living From The Heart, Tatyana Kleyn, Kate Seltzer Oct 2019

Top Ten Lessons Learned From Ofelia García: Researching, Teaching And Living From The Heart, Tatyana Kleyn, Kate Seltzer

Journal of Multilingual Education Research

For nearly forty years, the work of Dr. Ofelia García has steered not only the field of bilingual education, but also Spanish language education, teaching English to speakers of other languages, and sociolinguistics. As our professor, mentor, colleague, and friend, Dr. García has taught us many powerful lessons. Here, we describe ten of these, including some pertaining to academic and theoretical contributions, as well as some related to advocacy work in multilingualism. We conclude by describing the impact she has had on diverse academic fields through the CUNY-NYSIEB research project, in which she has mobilized her passions to promote educational …