Understanding the Role of Institutionalized Struggles in the Histories of Heritage Speakers Who Become Language Educational Leaders
Friday, May 31, 2019 at 11:45 AM–12:15 PM CDT add to calendar
Pathways
Session Type
Paper (25 minutes)
Program Summary
While US Latinx educational attainment continues to lag behind other groups, some of them fare beyond the K-12 system, becoming PhD holders and university instructors of Spanish (a language through which they are often stigmatized).This qualitative case study retells the stories of seven of them through an institutionalized struggles perspective.