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Changing Worlds, Changing Classrooms: Satellite Children And Their Teachers In The Transnational Era, Ming-Hsuan Wu, Sonna L. Opstad
Changing Worlds, Changing Classrooms: Satellite Children And Their Teachers In The Transnational Era, Ming-Hsuan Wu, Sonna L. Opstad
Journal of Multilingual Education Research
The challenges for immigrants in the US and Canada include the difficulties of making a living while raising their children. Due to the high cost of living and childcare in cities, along with the realities of low paying jobs and long working hours among many working-class immigrants, growing numbers of families send their infant children to their countries of origin to be raised by relatives for a few years. When the children reach school age, they are returned to their parents in the US. Prior research has focused on immigrant parents’ decision-making rationale and their reports of adjustments that children …
Silencing Students' Voices In An Era Of Academic Language, Aida Nevárez-La Torre
Silencing Students' Voices In An Era Of Academic Language, Aida Nevárez-La Torre
Journal of Multilingual Education Research
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Jmer Vol. 9: The Power Of Voice: Contributions Of Ofelia García To Language Education
Jmer Vol. 9: The Power Of Voice: Contributions Of Ofelia García To Language Education
Journal of Multilingual Education Research
This special issue of The Journal of Multilingual Education Research is a tribute to Ofelia García as a scholar and as a mentor. Dr. García has made 'translanguaging' famous throughout the world. The fifteen articles in this issue reflect her impact on translanguaging.
Ofelia García: A Transformative Thinker And Leader, Cecilia M. Espinosa
Ofelia García: A Transformative Thinker And Leader, Cecilia M. Espinosa
Journal of Multilingual Education Research
In this essay, I describe the ways in which Ofelia García's work influenced the field of bilingual education and multilingualism, as well as my thinking over the years as a bilingual educator. Dr. García has been a model of what it means to be an intellectual who is deeply connected to the importance of engaging in transformative theoretical ideas. Her ideas, in turn, have proven to have profound implications for pedagogy that impacts the education of emergent bilinguals. Her work is deeply grounded in understandings about language and language development as it exists in the world. Her perspective is one …