Candidate Search Events

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