Plurilingual & Pluriculturales: A Newsletter on Critical Language Education
This collection of projects stems from the research and development of critical pedagogies at the University of California Riverside and collaborations with colleagues at the University of Oregon, Western Illinois University, the University of Wisconsin Whitewater, Yale University, and the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, México. The units presented here can be adapted for teaching Spanish as a heritage language in the United States and for students with other linguistic backgrounds. Our focus is on content that supports language instructors in creating a curriculum with elements of inclusive critical pedagogies.
What you will find inside
Pedagogical articles
This section will collect different adaptations and summaries of academic articles related to the field of Spanish teaching in the United States. The goal is to increase the reach of the theoretical premises developed in academic publications for educators in K-12, community colleges, and universities so that they can put these principles into practice and experiment in their classes.
Activities for students
Here we will post different activities for the classroom -open source- that will be in conversation with the topic explained in the issue’s pedagogical article. The activities will be designed to promote critical thinking in students so that they deconstruct sociocultural and sociolinguistic constructs.
Interviews/Spotlight
With each issue we will include interviews with students, families, teachers… to find out their different opinions, proposals or experiences on a current topic that can give us more information from different points of view. The objective with these testimonies is to know their feelings, keep them in mind and try to change and improve in our daily lives as educators.
leaving a mark
This is a space for students. Each issue will publish poems, stories, videos, songs… Any creative material that our students have made and thus create a little corner with their emotions, feelings and thoughts.
With desire
With each issue we will include interviews with students, families, teachers… to find out their different opinions, proposals or experiences on a current topic that can give us more information from different points of view. The objective with these testimonies is to know their feelings, keep them in mind and try to change and improve in our daily lives as educators.