Towards Educational Dignity: Translanguaging y la Preparación de Maestros

Abstract

For racialized bilinguals, a dignity-oriented capabilities approach would thus demand that students maintain and cultivate capacity to engage not only in academic tasks but also in the civic and social life of their communities. It would require maintaining connections to family and personal history by sustaining home/heritage languages and cultural practices, as well as actively engaging with and contesting the oppression and denigration that students and their families experience. It would demand curriculum that positions students, their families, and their communities as sources of strength and precious knowledge and that considers students to be agents with the capability to draw from those sources to advance their own vision of a better society. (Poza, 2021, p. 504)