Centering Multilingual Learners and Countering Raciolinguistic Ideologies in Teacher Education: Principles, Policies and Practices (Language, Education and Diversity, 3)

Jeff Bale is Professor of Language and Literacies Education at OISE, University of Toronto and currently serves as Vice President, University and External Affairs for the University of Toronto Faculty Association. He is lead author of Centering Multilingual Learners and Challenging Raciolinguistic Ideologies in Teacher Education (Multilingual Matters, 2023) and is co-editor, along with Sarah Knopp, of Education and Capitalism: Struggles for Learning and Liberation (Haymarket, 2012). In 2021-2022, he was a Humboldt Fellow at the Universität Bremen and currently leads the Language and Race in Contemporary Canadian History project (see larchproject.ca), funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Shakina Rajendram is an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream and the Coordinator of the Language Teaching Field at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto, Canada. Shakina has taught at the K-12 and post-secondary levels in Malaysia and Canada for over 12 years. Her current teaching and research focus on second language teaching methodologies, pre-service and in-service teacher education, and supporting multilingual learners and international students through translanguaging and multiliteracies pedagogies.

Mama Adobea Nii-Owoo is a Postdoctoral Researcher at McGill University's Department of Integrated Studies in Education specializing in policies and practices around multilingual education, teacher education and comparative international and development education. Her work addresses the complexities and challenges in teaching literacy and language to multilingual learners speaking and writing in both English and African languages. Her scholarship includes the co-authored book, Centering Multilingual Learners and Countering Raciolinguistic Ideologies in Teacher Education: Principles, Policies and Practices (Multilingual Matters),  a chapter in the Handbook of Language and the Global South, and articles in peer-reviewed journals such as TESL Canada, OLBI Journal, and the International Journal of Qualitative Methods. Mama researches across multiple modalities, and her research is also featured in the documentary film, No Vernacular!, which explores African multilingualism and language policy in Ghana.

Julie Kerekes is Associate Professor in Language and Literacies Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada. Her research interests include interlanguage pragmatics, language and power in intercultural institutional settings, and workplace communication.