Translanguaging through the body: centering geographies of selves in Latinx pre-service teacher education

Authors

• Cinthya M. Saavedra, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
• Mónica González-Ybarra, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-3-2023

Abstract

Traversing metaphorical, literal, and epistemological borders everyday creates and produces new ways of being and knowing. These migrations have afforded many with ways to live in the in-betweenness of multiple languages, identities, and knowledges. In this conceptual essay, we focus on Gloria Anzaldúa’s concept of geographies of selves to support ideas of translanguaging as a theory and pedagogy of linguistic embodiment. The body moves through space and time gathering information, knowledge, and wisdom to produce hybrid languages and culture and ultimately new knowledges. We specifically look towards the borderlands embodied experiences as central to new ways of understanding how bodies/identities express different realities and knowledges through language. We offer implications for Latinx pre-service education.

Comments

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Recommended Citation

Saavedra, C. M., & González Ybarra, M. (2023). Translanguaging through the body: Centering geographies of selves in Latinx pre-service teacher education. Language and Education, 37(5), 639–650. https://doi.org/10.1080/09500782.2023.2238681

First Page

639

Last Page

650

Publication Title

Language and Education

DOI

10.1080/09500782.2023.2238681