Multilingual education in an Italian public preschool
Teachers and families among mobility processes and inclusive practices
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11294028 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Valentina Carbonara (0000-0003-2275-5407, Università per stranieri di Siena , Siena , Italy, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 321-340 |
| Publication date | 2022-05-25 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Multilingua (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0167-8507 • E-ISSN: 1613-3684 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/multi-2021-0124 |
| OpenAlex | W3217702423 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 25 |
This paper focuses on the integration of translanguaging practices in a public preschool situated in a small village in North-West of Italy. Mobility processes and local Italian families’ school choices have led to the raise of the number of students with an immigrant background enrolled at the studied preschool up to 85%. After a brief overview regarding mobility and translanguaging in education, particularly in relation to preschool domain, I describe the macro and micro contexts of this ethnographic case study. I then focus on the analysis of the main learning activities designed by teachers to engage children’s multilingual repertoires. Later, applying qualitative content analysis, I outline the main patterns and categories emerging from interviews and focus groups conducted with teachers and parents to investigate how they experienced the marginalization of immigrant minority children in their preschool and how they received the introduction of multilingual education approach. Finally, I discuss the results in terms of democratic language education and social justice, underlining their implications and relevance for preschools teachers’ professional development and agency
Agency (philosophy · Disadvantaged · Diversity (politics · Focus group · Immigration · Legitimation · Multilingual Education · Multilingualism · Pedagogy · Political science · Situated · Social science · Sociology · Translanguaging · Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology · Second Language Learning and Teaching
Translanguaging
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Qualitative Content Analysis in Practice
The Sociolinguistics of Globalization
Translanguaging revisited
Increasing multilingualism in schoolscapes
Developing multilingual practices in early childhood education through professional development in Luxembourg
Navigating Hybridized Language Learning Spaces Through Translanguaging Pedagogy
Globalization in the margins
Moments of metalinguistic awareness in a Kindergarten class
Integrating translanguaging pedagogy into Italian primary schools
Ethnographic Fieldwork
Translanguaging as a pedagogy for equity of language minoritized students
They call me anneanne!” translanguaging as a theoretical and pedagogical challenge and opportunity in the kindergarten context in Norway
Translanguaging in Conjunction with language revitalization
The transformative limits of translanguaging
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |