Overcoming the Gentrification of Dual Language, Bilingual and Immersion Education

M. Garrett Delavan is Assistant Professor of World Language, Dual Language and ESOL Education at Georgia State University, USA. His research interests include equity in dual language bilingual education, discourse analysis of education policy and Earth consciousness in language education.Juan A. Freire is Associate Professor in the School of Education at Brigham Young University, USA. His research focuses on equity in dual language bilingual education, multicultural and bilingual teacher research and language education policy and planning.Kate Menken is Professor of Linguistics and TESOL at Queens College and Research Fellow at the Research Institute for the Study of Language in Urban Society, CUNY Graduate Center, USA. She is Co-Editor in Chief of Language Policy and serves on the board of various journals in bilingual education and multilingualism.

This book is a treasure of scholarly arguments by brilliant scholars who powerfully reject the gentrification of bilingual education theories in order to build culturally and linguistically responsive policies and practices that ideologically and pedagogically resist racialized bilingual classrooms and communities.

• ContributorsNelson Flores: Foreword: Toward a Post-Gentrification Future in Bilingual Education Research, Policy and PracticeJuan A. Freire, Kate Menken and M. Garrett Delavan: An Introduction to Overcoming the Gentrification of Dual Language, Bilingual and Immersion EducationChapter 1. M. Garrett Delavan, Juan A. Freire and Kate Menken: Setting the Foundation: Tracing the Evolving Critiques of the Gentrification of Dual Language Bilingual EducationPart 1: Research ChaptersLens at the School Level  Chapter 2. Deborah Palmer and Suzanne García-Mateus: Colonizing Hillside Elementary: The Figured World(s) of Parent Engagement at a Gentrifying (Two-Way) Bilingual SchoolChapter 3. Chris K. Chang-Bacon, Mariana Lima Becker and Gabrielle Oliveira: Contingent Commodification: Brazilian Students and the Gentrification of Portuguese–English Dual Language Bilingual EducationChapter 4. Bingjie Zheng: The Impact of Neoliberal Multilingualism and Gentrification on Chinese DLBE Programs: Programs that Do and Don't Enroll Heritage LearnersChapter 5. Luis E. Poza: 'Downplay that Spanish Side': The White Listening Subject in an Ethnically Homogenous Bilingual Program Cohort Chapter 6. Ramón Antonio Martínez and CoCo Massengale: Translanguaging and Racialized Multilingual Children: Envisioning Dual Language Education for Working-Class Students of ColorLens Beyond the School LevelChapter 7. M. Garrett Delavan, Juan A. Freire and Verónica E. Valdez: Mass Production, Mass Marketing and Mass Displacement in DLBE Policy: A Call for Locally Crafted Programs Chapter 8. P. Zitlali Morales, Ramona Alcalá, Norma Monsivais Diers and Nancy Domínguez-Fret: ¿Estamos Escuchando?: Creating Transformative Ruptures that Amplify Latinx Families’ Rights to DLBE in ChicagolandChapter 9. Trish Morita-Mullaney: Earmarking the Constellations of Financial Gentrification: The Elusivity of Funding Dual Language Bilingual Education for Emergent BilingualsChapter 10. Dan Heiman, Mariela Nuñez-Janes, Ivonne Solano, César Rosales and María Fernanda Ortega: Críticos, no criticones: Applying the Actions of Critical Consciousness in an Interdisciplinary Collaboration Across Two Universities and a School District's Dual Language/ESL DepartmentPart 2: Stakeholder Resource Chapters Chapter 11. Ivana Espinet, Kate Menken and Imee Hernandez: A Case of DLBE Gentrification and Tools for Engaging Stakeholders in How to Do BetterThis chapter is open access under a CC BY NC ND licence and can be downloaded for free at: https://zenodo.org/records/10519199Chapter 12.  Nelson Flores: Nice White Parents and Dual Language EducationThis chapter is open access under a CC BY NC ND licence and can be downloaded for free at: https://zenodo.org/records/10519269Chapter 13. Deborah Palmer, Emily Crawford, Lisa Dorner, Claudia Cervantes-Soon and Dan Heiman: Countering Gentrification through Critical Consciousness: Recommendations and Success Stories for DLBE EducatorsThis chapter is open access under a CC BY NC ND licence and can be downloaded for free at: https://zenodo.org/records/10519319Chapter 14. Katie A. Bernstein, Kathryn I. Henderson, Sofía Chaparro and Adriana Alvarez: Creating DLBE Programs that Center Equity in the Face of School Choice PoliciesThis chapter is open access under a CC BY NC ND licence and can be downloaded for free at: https://zenodo.org/records/10519390Kate Menken, Juan A. Freire and M. Garrett Delavan: Conclusion: Overcoming DLBE Gentrification by Aiming for the CommonsIndex