Bilingual and Literacy Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations

Unexamined Ideas and Beliefs Shaping Efficacy and Implementation of Dual-Language Programs for Better or for Worse

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2023

Abstract

Educators' transformative power can be harnessed or arrested contingent on what scripts educators subscribe to and the schooling experience conceptual maps system they develop, which creates the mindset they want to exercise in their practice. Utilizing Itinerant Curriculum Theory (ICT), this study has captured the subtle transformation of a dual language program and how educators have choices even when satisfying the systems stifling requirements at different levels in a public education system. These choices can impact the execution and fidelity of any program, thus altering the expected outcomes and students' learning, including their road to biliteracy.

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© Copyright Texas Association for Bilingual Education

First Page

115

Last Page

131

Publication Title

Journal of Bilingual Education Research & Instruction

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