Developing Translanguaging Repertoires in Critical Teacher Education

Chapter 5 Starting with the teachers: Pursuing paradigmatic shift through the development of teachers’ translanguaging repertoires

Xenia Hadjioannou

Penn State Berks

Abstract

Translanguaging pedagogy calls for strategically and systematically leveraging all students’ language knowledge toward bilingualism and biliteracy; a commitment that demands critical consideration of normative practice, identifying and dismantling oppressive patterns, and angling teaching toward equity and social justice (Calabrese Barton, Tan, and Birmingham 2020; Zapata et al. 2019). Teacher education has a crucial role to play, since adopting translanguaging pedagogy requires a paradigmatic shift from common monolingually oriented approaches. Based on multi-year ...