An initial PD design that did not distinguish equity conceptions reified deficit perspectives of multilingual learners¶
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q2 i? During Summer PD 1 and Academic Year 1, teachers and facilitators framed multilingual learners' writing and language in deficit terms, and facilitators redirected to artifacts rather than challenging deficit framings. → Ashlyn Pierson 2024
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Ashlyn Pierson 2024¶
Ashlyn Pierson, D. Teo Keifert, Bethany Daniel, Sarah Lee, Tessaly Jen, Adam Bell, Heather Johnson, Rachel Askew, Andrea Henrie. (2024). Designing to support equity-as-transformation perspectives for multilingual science learners. Instructional Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11251-024-09674-8
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Interaction analysis of the Academic Year 1 student work analysis episode, in a qualitative case study of the RepTaLs PD project. Sarah characterized an English learner's mixed-up sentence as humorous, and "Facilitator Heather redirected the group to the artifacts themselves" rather than challenging the deficit framing.
"This statement positioned MLs' writing as a mistake to be fixed—a deficit perspective that privileged English—rather than seeing the student's writing, for example, as evidence of complex thinking."
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An initial PD design that did not distinguish equity conceptions reified deficit perspectives of multilingual learners |
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An initial PD design that did not distinguish equity conceptions reified deficit perspectives of multilingual learners |
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