Contents
Preface ?ix
List of Abbreviations ?xv
Acknowledgments ?xvii
1. ?Tensions Surrounding the Education of Bilingual Children With a Disability ?1
Cultural Historical Tensions in Teaching and Learning With Bilingual Children ?3
Issues of Disability Identification Disproportionality and Consequences of Labels ?4
Lack of Teacher Preparation Programs for Inclusive Education in Bilingual Contexts ?6
Lack of Inclusive Approaches for Bilingual Education ?8
Bilingual Education: A Space Inclusive of Children With a Disability ?10
2. ?Assumptions and Theories in the Varied Ways of Knowing Project ?13
Assumptions Grounding the Varied Ways of Knowing Project ?15
Theoretical Ideas Guiding the Project: A Hybrid Afterschool Program Space ?15
The Varied Ways of Knowing Project ?22
3. ?Documenting the Varied Ways of Knowing Project ?25
The Role of the Institution of Higher Education ?26
The Varied Ways of Knowing School Context ?26
Varied Ways of Knowing Project: Children and Teacher Candidates ?27
Documenting Learning With Bilingual Children With and Without a Disability ?28
Exploring the Work of the Children and the Teacher Candidates ?29
Reflecting on Roles When Working in Bilingual Contexts ?30
Relevant Questions and Organization of the Chapters ?31
4. ?The Issue of Ableism in Bilingual and Bicultural Education ?35
Metaphors Driving Bilingual Teachers to Enact Ableist Practices ?37
The Learning Identities of Bilingual Children With a Disability ?40
Conclusion ?51
5. ?Teaching Children With Multiple Labels: Manifestations of Assimilation and Turning Points ?53
Parallel Processes of Assimilation: Being Bilingual and Having a Disability ?53
Assimilationist Processes Impacting Children of Immigrant Background ?54
Assimilationist Processes Impacting Children Labeled With a Disability ?55
Interrupting Processes of Assimilation ?57
Children?s Experience: Expansive Views Crossing Identities and Cultures ?58
A Contrasting Experience: Susana?s Agency and Learning Identity ?68
A Turning Point: ?(Susana) Is a Very Strong Girl for Sharing That With All of Us? ?73
Conclusion ?76
6. ?Humanistic Perspectives in Inclusive Bilingual Education ?79
The Significance of Humanistic Perspectives With Bilingual Children With a Disability ?79
The Capas y Escudos (Capes and Shields) Project ?85
Playful Spaces as Tools for Humanizing Pedagogies ?85
Conclusion ?96
7. ?Exploring Disability With Bilingual Children ?98
Identity and Disability ?99
Bilingual and Bicultural Identity ?100
Multiple Identities and Bilingual Children With a Disability ?101
Teaching About Disability and the Disability Rights Movement ?103
Learning and Disability Identity Through a CHAT and DSE Lens ?104
Exploring the Disability Civil Rights Movement and the Rights of People With a Disability ?106
Agency and Collective Learning While Exploring Disability ?106
Conclusion ?122
8. ?Science Learning With Bilingual Children: Learning In-Between Boundaries in a Hybrid Space ?126
Science Education and Emergent Bilinguals ?127
Science Education and Children With a Disability ?129
Exploring Science With Bilingual Children With and Without a Disability ?130
The Relevant Contexts for Science and Landforms Unit ?131
Learning at the Boundary of Knowledges, Disciplines, and Formal/Less Formal Spaces ?132
Conclusion ?145
9. ?Artifact-Mediated Science Content Learning in Inclusive Bilingual Contexts ?148
The Importance of Mediators When Teaching Children With a Disability ?150
The Importance of Mediators When Teaching Bilingual Children ?152
Mediating Science Content Learning With Bilingual Children With a Disability ?153
The Earthquakes, Plate Tectonics, and the Ring of Fire Unit ?154
Artifacts and the Way They Mediate Learning in Inclusive Bilingual Contexts ?155
Children?s Volitional Actions: Re-mediating Using Artifacts and Various Knowledges ?156
Language as an Artifact: Tensions Addressing Content Learning and Language Learning ?166
Conclusion ?172
10. ?The Varied Ways of Knowing Project: Teaching Bilingual Students With a Disability ?175
Ableist Practices in Bilingual Education and Implications ?177
Historical Assimilationist Practices and Implications for Bilingual Education ?179
Humanistic Perspectives for Inclusive Bilingual Education ?180
Learning About Disability With Bilingual Children ?185
A Hybrid Space for Science Learning In-Between Boundaries ?186
Conclusion ?189
Epilogue ?191
References ?193
Index ?213
About the Author ?222
