Weaving transnational feministmethodologies: (Re)examining early childhood linguistic diversity teacher training and research.

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Journal of early childhood research

Volume

7

Issue

3

Publisher

SAGE

Publication Date

2009

First Page

324

Last Page

340

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to engender a space where a variety of critical feminist(s) lenses are interwoven to problematize current discursive practices in linguistic diversity training and to (re)imagine nueavas posibilidades for linguistic diversity research/training for pre-kindergarten teachers. Transnational feminists’ projects have the potential to illuminate and connect larger global issues with, and that pertain to, local and specific radical projects by incorporating critical reflexive methodological tools. In this article we propose to a) discuss language as a monocultural construction that limits conceptions of language and learning for younger human beings; b) examine the discursive practices of teachers of students who are English as second/third language learners; c) discuss the discourse of sharing codes of power; and finally d) scrutinize interventionist assumptions of educational research.

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