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Affirming the Rights of Emergent Bilingual and Multilingual Children and Families

Interweaving Research and Practice through the Reggio Emilia Approach
Buch | Hardcover
242 Seiten
2023
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-27853-7 (ISBN)
155,85 inkl. MwSt
This book explores how the philosophy, principles, and practices of the internationally acclaimed Municipal Preschools and Infant Toddler Centers of Reggio Emilia, Italy, advance the social justice and linguistic human rights of emergent bilingual and multilingual children and their families, particularly immigrants and refugees.
Affirming the Rights of Emergent Bilingual and Multilingual Children and Families explores how the philosophy, principles, and practices of the internationally acclaimed Municipal Preschools and Infant Toddler Centers of Reggio Emilia, Italy, advance the social justice and linguistic human rights of emergent bilingual and multilingual children and their families, particularly immigrants and refugees.

The book is driven by the authors’ research-based discourse including an interview with Reggio Emilia educators and direct observations in the Preschools and Infant–toddler Centers in Italy. Chapters include survey and follow-up interviews, and classroom examples from U.S. early childhood educators inspired by the Reggio Emilia approach some of whom are in multilingual settings. Recommendations are included for practitioners who are intentional about advocating for the rights of emergent bi- and multilingual young children. Also included are the researchers’ interpretations and reflexive narratives on contextuality, intersectionality, and intertextuality, which interweave theories and practice. The insightful examinations of scholarly work and the critical review of the distinctive features of the Reggio Emilia philosophy contribute to an early childhood education transformative lens that challenges the status quo of inequities and foregrounds the linguistic and cultural rights of learners who speak different languages. The authors review research and theory that inform the latest developments in culturally and linguistically responsive practices in innovative early education (infant through pre-k), family participation, and teacher preparation and development.

Of general interest to educators and researchers around the world who work to ensure the rights of emergent language learners, this is an essential text for upper-level and graduate students, early childhood educators, educational and community leaders, administrators, and researchers.

Brenda Fyfe, Ed.D., is Dean and Professor Emerita in the School of Education at Webster University, USA. Yin Lam (Nicole) Lee-Johnson, Ph.D., is Director of the Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) program and a member of the Leadership Council in the School of Education at Webster University, USA. Juana Reyes, Ed.D., is Associate Professor in the Early Childhood and Special Education Program at Lewis University, USA. Geralyn (Gigi) Schroeder Yu, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor in Art Education at the University of New Mexico, USA.

Contents

Acknowledgments

About the Editors and Contributors

Preface by Carla Rinaldi

Section A Framing the Conversation

Chapter 1: Introduction to our research, framing constructs, and purposes

By Brenda Fyfe, Yin Lam Lee-Johnson, Juana Reyes, and Gigi Yu

Chapter 2: What we learned from our conversation with Reggio educators

By Gigi Yu, Brenda Fyfe, Baji Rankin, Juana Reyes

Section B The theory of the hundred languages: Crossing borders

Chapter 3: Breathing New Life: The Graphic Languages, Translanguaging, and Metaphoric Language with Young Children in Multilingual Contexts

By Geralyn (Gigi) Yu and Juana Reyes

Chapter 4: Multimodal Translanguaging and Assisted Intersemiotic Translation in the Reggio Emilia Approach: Applications to Multilingual Learners

By DJ Kaiser, PhD

Chapter 5: Studio art teachers’ perspectives on multimodality and the hundred languages in early childhood multilingual contexts

By Jesus Oviedo and Gigi Yu

Section C Pedagogical Implications: Interweaving Research, Theory, and Practice

Chapter 6: The Beginnings of Language: Exploring the Language Strengths of Infants and Toddlers

By Cheryl Breig-Allen, Baji Rankin and Jennifer Strange

Chapter 7: Words Unspoken: Pedagogical documentation and linguistically minoritized young children

By Juana Reyes and Gigi Yu

Chapter 8: The Principle of Progettazione in Supporting the Language Development of Multilingual Children

by Cheryl Breig-Allen and Jennifer Strange

Chapter 9: Family engagement and participation: Learning from and with emergent bilingual and multilingual children and families

By Brenda Fyfe and Nahid Nader-Hashemi

Section D Transformative Lens for Affirming the Rights of Emergent Bi- and Multilingual Language Learners in the United States.

Chapter 10: Transforming the Reggio-inspired Approach in the USA: Critical Chronotopic Analysis for Restoring What’s Radically "Reggio"

By Yin Lam Lee-Johnson

Chapter 11: The Metaphorical Context of the Atelier as a Border Crossing Space: Exploring Relationships in Young Children’s Languaging and Translanguaging Processes

By Geralyn (Gigi) Yu, Yin Lam (Nicole) Lee-Johnson, and Juana Reyes

Chapter 12: What Does It Mean to Be Emergent Bi- and Multilingual Language Learners? Self-Stories and Counternarratives from Educational Researchers

By Juana Reyes, Nahid Nader-Hashemi, Yin Lam (Nicole) Lee-Johnson

Chapter 13: Teacher education and professional development to support emergent bilingual and multilingual children

by Brenda Fyfe and Baji Rankin

Section E Pushing the boundaries of our conversation

Chapter 14: Teaching in cultural and Linguistic super-diverse Australian classrooms: A north - south exploration of Reggio Emilia.

By Lester-Irabinna Rigney and Carla Rinaldi

Chapter 15: Conclusions: Moving the Conversation Forward

By Brenda Fyfe, Gigi Yu, Juana Reyes, and Yin Lam Lee-Johnson

Appendix A Questionnaire

Appendix B Follow up Interview questions

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 6 Tables, black and white; 17 Halftones, black and white; 17 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 635 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Allgemeines / Lexika
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Bildungstheorie
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Vorschulpädagogik
ISBN-10 1-032-27853-6 / 1032278536
ISBN-13 978-1-032-27853-7 / 9781032278537
Zustand Neuware
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