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by Leah Shepard-Carey (Editor), Zhongfeng Tian (Editor)
This book presents one possible pathway towards the advancement of translanguaging pedagogies: teacher-researcher partnerships. Although the existing literature alludes to the value of such partnerships, there is a lack of research that explicitly describes the complex processes of designing and implementing translanguaging pedagogies in primary and secondary school settings (K-12) across various international contexts. Through an expanded focus on teacher-researcher collaboration and the negotiation process, the book unpacks the opportunities and challenges of engaging in contextualized translanguaging designs with reference to broader ideological discourses and systemic structures. By promoting and highlighting teacher-researcher partnerships as one avenue for improvement and transparency, the chapters in this book demonstrate the potential of translanguaging pedagogies in classrooms and further resist the linguistic hierarchies that exist in educational institutions today.
Author Biography
Leah Shepard-Carey is Assistant Professor of Graduate Studies in the School of Education at Drake University, USA. Her research explores multilingual pedagogies in English-medium settings, supporting critical language awareness and culturally-sustaining pedagogies in teacher education, and collaborative and design-based approaches to educational research.
Zhongfeng Tian is Assistant Professor of Bilingual Education at Rutgers University-Newark, USA. His research centers on working with pre- and in-service teachers to provide bi/multilingual students with equitable and inclusive learning environments in ESL and dual language immersion contexts. He is the co-editor of two books Envisioning TESOL through a Translanguaging Lens (Springer, 2020) and English-Medium Instruction and Translanguaging (Multilingual Matters, 2021).
