3 ‘They Are Going to Forget about Us’: Translanguaging and Student Agency in a Gentrifying Neighborhood

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Agradecimientos ix
4. Contributors xi
5. Foreword: The Transformative Possibilities of Translanguaging xix
6. Introducción: Transforming Educational Espacios – Translanguaging Sin Miedo 1
7. Part 1 Latinx Children and Youth, Translanguaging and Transformation
8. 1 The Making of the Language of US Latinxs: Translanguaging Tejidos 19
9. Part 2 Good and Agency ¿Para Quién?
10. 2 ‘Well Good Para Quién?’: Disrupting Two-Way Bilingual Education Gentrifi cation and Reclaiming Space through a Critical Translanguaging Pedagogy 47
11. 3 ‘They Are Going to Forget about Us’: Translanguaging and Student Agency in a Gentrifying Neighborhood 71
12. Part 3 Possibilities from the Fronteras
13. 4 Prefi guring Translingual Possibilities: The Transformative Potential of Translanguaging for Dual Language Bilingual Education 95
14. 5 Translanguaging and Other Forms of Capital in Dual Language Bilingual Education: Lessons from la Frontera 113
15. 6 Student Inquiry into the Language Practices de sus Comunidades: Rompiendo Fronteras in a Dual Language Bilingual School 134
16. 7 An Experienced Bilingual Latina Teacher and Pre-K Latinx Students in the Borderlands: Translanguaging as Humanizing Pedagogy 156
17. Part 4 Corridos y Cuentos Across and Beyond
18. 8 Collaborative Corridos: Ballads of Unity and Justice 183
19. 9 Critical Translanguaging Literacies and Latinx Children’s Literature: Making Space for a Transformative and Liberating Pedagogy 201
20. Part 5 Raising the Potencial of ‘Los Otros’ Latinx Bilingual Children and Youth
21. 10 The US Latinx Deaf Communities: Situating and Envisioning the Transformative Potential of Translanguaging 223
22. 11 What We Experience is What We Value: Perceptions of Home Language Practices by Latinx Emergent Bilinguals Labeled as Disabled 252
23. Part 6 Conclusión
24. 12 A Path Pa’lante! Amplifying Translanguaging Espacios Sin Miedo 277
25. Afterword – No Quiero Que Me Le Vayan A Hacer Burla: Issues to Ponder and Consider in the Context of Translanguaging 292
26. Author Index 302
27. Subject Index 305