Come participate
in the selection of the next professor for TECS
Meet
Ysaaca Axelrod, candidate for
Assistant Professor,
Tenure Track,
Primary Education (Grades
K-2) Child Development
Monday, November 25
Job Talk
- 4:00 - Furcolo 219
¿Tu te acuerdas de ganchulinas?”:Longitudinal
research with young emergent bilinguals
This talk discusses data
from an ethnographic case-study of young Latino children starting as
4-year-olds in a Head Start classroom through their first grade year in a
dual-language program in a public school.
The children attended a bilingual Head Start program that followed a
play-based curriculum and focused on the socio-emotional development of the
children. The flexibility of the curriculum in this setting allowed time and
space for the children to play and develop at their own pace, positioning them
as knowers and learners. The children then moved into a public school setting
with a narrow “literacy focused” curriculum, with strict boundaries established
between languages and a narrower definition of what “counts” as literacy. In
spite of this, these children continued to draw on their linguistic resources,
making space for play and developing their identities as multilingual children
in ways that are often not captured by the curriculum, but are visible to those
who seek to listen to the children and see their strengths and growth over
time.
Graduate Student Open Forum -
10-10:45 - Furcolo 100