Centering Multilingual Learners and Countering Raciolinguistic Ideologies in Teacher Education: Principles, Policies and Practices

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.

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.