Symposium: Boundaries and Boundary Crossings in a Professional Development Program for Teachers in Indigenous (Dual) Immersion Program
Friday, May 31, 2019 at 10:15 AM–12:15 PM CDT add to calendar
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Session Type
Symposium (2 hours)
Program Summary
Bringing together applied linguistics, literacy experts and Indigenous teacher-researchers this symposium reports on teacher action research conducted in a post secondary professional development program for Yup’ik (dual) immersion teachers. Using constructivist grounded theory we explored the collaboration across departments, disciplines and D/discourses, identifying tensions around boundaries and boundary crossing.