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Documents the significant groundwork Jim Cummins has done to improve multilingual learners’ education and paves the path forward for social justice in education
Jim Cummins is a globally renowned researcher, educator and advocate, who has spent 50 years championing social justice through transformative pedagogy and the recognition of teachers as knowledge generators and transformative agents. This book reflects on the extraordinary contributions Cummins has made to the theory and pedagogy of multilingual learning, through cutting-edge research-based chapters inspired by his scholarship as well as personal testimonials recognizing the impact his work has had on his students and collaborators. The volume provides new opportunities to rediscover and reconfirm the contributions of his work which has transformed educational practices across diverse settings and will pave new paths for further advancing theory-practice synergies into the future.
Shelley K. Taylor is a Professor in the Faculty of Education at Western University, Canada. Her current research focuses on pluralistic approaches to second and foreign language teaching. Previous studies focused on multilingual development through L1-based multilingual language education in South Asia, English-Medium Instruction in Denmark, and second language teaching in Canada (ESL and FSL), Denmark (DSL), and Greenland (DSL and EFL). She serves on the editorial board for Race, Ethnicity & Education.
Ryuko Kubota is a Professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Her research focuses on antiracist and critical approaches to language education. Her publications appear in Applied Linguistics, Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, Journal of Second Language Writing and TESOL Quarterly and she is co-editor of the Multilingual Matters book series Critical Language and Literacy Studies.
Foreword. Robert Phillipson
Preface. Shelley K. Taylor & Ryuko Kubota
Part I: Theoretical Applications in Diverse Contexts
Testimonial: Shelley K. Taylor: From Inspiring, but Quixotic, to Achieving the Dream
Chapter 1. Stephen May, Stef Slembrouck, & Piet van Avermaet: The Legacy of Jim Cummins: Stages of Theoretical-Conceptual Debate and Impact on Practice
Testimonial: Ian Martin: Jim Cummins’s Contribution to Bilingual Education in Nunavut
Chapter 2. Kristin Snoddon & Erin Wilkinson: Exploring Bilingualism in Deaf Learners
Testimonial: Annette Henry: Gratitude
Testimonial: Yasmeen A. Hakooz: From Anomie to Identity: How Cummins Informed My Research on Student Belonging and Importance of Identity Negotiation
Chapter 3. Hitomi Oketani: Revisited: Cummins’s Framework on Japanese Expatriate Children in both the U.S. and Japan—A Case Study
Testimonial: Constant Leung: Ideas that Run and Run
Chapter 4. Rachel Heydon & Zheng Zhang: Finding a New Balance: Jim Cummins and Literacy Education in a Science of Reading Era
Testimonial: Yilin Sun: From Scholarship to Advocacy: Dr. Jim Cummins’s Transformative Influence on My Journey to TESOL Leadership, Social Justice, and Academic Development
Chapter 5. Mitsuyo Sakamoto: Revisiting the Linguistic Interdependence Hypothesis: Bringing UTT and CTT Together
Testimonial: Alastair Pennycook: Stout Collaborations
Part II: Pedagogical Mobilizations & Policy Enactments
Testimonial: Robert Di Prospero: Walking the Talk
Chapter 6. David Little: Home Languages as Instruments of Educational Inclusion: Some Reflections on BICS/CALP and Identity Formation
Testimonial: Thalia Dragona & Anna Frangoudaki: Negotiating Identities and Restructuring Power Relations: Jim Cummins’s Legacy for Muslim Minority Education in Greece
Testimonial: Vasilia Kourtis-Kazoullis & Eleni Skourtou : Jim Cummins: A Meeting of Minds in Greece
Chapter 7. Åsa Wedin: From a Monolingual Educational Policy, through Identity Texts to a Translanguaging Perspective
Testimonial: Joan Wink & Dawn Wink: Jim Cummins: Multi-Generational Impact
Chapter 8. Emmanuelle Le Pichon & Ellen-Rose Kambel: An Ecological Approach to (Language) Learning: The Impact of Jim Cummins’s Work on Applied Linguistics Research in Education
Testimonial: Donna Patrick: Understanding Inuit Language and Schooling in Arctic Canada
Chapter 9. Margaret Early & Brian Morgan: A Vision of Consequence: Jim Cummins’s Contributions through a Duoethnographic Lens
Testimonial: Chuan Liu & Julie D’Ippolito : Becoming through Identity Texts: Carrying Cummins’s Vision for Multilingual Empowerment
Chapter 10. David Schwarzer & Melissa Rivera Screven: Identity Texts and Translingualism: Celebrating Jim Cummins’s Influence
Testimonial: Sarah Cohen: Expanding Identities
Chapter 11. Siv Björklund: Beyond Officially Monolingual Policies in Education: Expanding the Instructional Space for Linguistically Sensitive Teaching
Testimonial: Colette Despagne & Coral Buítron : The Generational Impact of Jim Cummins’s Work: Personal Testimonials
Chapter 12. Ester de Jong, Tuba Yilmaz, & Kathy Barko Alva: Revisiting Empowering Minority Students: Negotiating Identities
Testimonial: Bonny Norton: Jim Cummins and Collaborative Relations of Power
Part III: International Impact
Testimonial: Marcel Danesi: Working with Jim Cummins on Promoting Heritage Language Education: A Testimonial
Chapter 13. Christine Hélot & Andrea Young: The Transformative Impact of Jim Cummins’s Theories on Research and Practice with Teachers in France
Testimonial: Anne Holmen & Christian Horst: Jim Cummins––A True Scholar
Chapter 14. Jasone Cenoz & Durk Gorter: Basque and Frisian in Education
Testimonial: Mikel Zalbide: The Intellectual Contribution of Jim Cummins to the Present-Day Basque Education
Chapter 15. Aiko Sano & Kazuko Nakajima: Impact of Linguistic Interdependence Hypothesis and Transformative Multiliteracies Pedagogy in Japanese Contexts
Testimonial: Stephen Bahry: A Deracinated Heritage Language Speaker’s Encounters with Jim Cummins and His Thought
Chapter 16. Ajit Mohanty, Minati Panda, & Teresa L. McCarty: Indigenous Language Education and the Practice-Policy Provocations of Jim Cummins’s Work: Comparative Perspectives
Testimonial: Alexander (Sandy) McAuley: “We Are Building a Critical Voice Together”: A Perspective on Jim Cummins’s Contribution to Decolonizing Education in the Eastern Canadian Arctic (Nunavut)
Testimonial: Gyal Lo (Jia Luo): An Intellectual Journey Towards Reconciliation of Identities—Thoughts on Jim Cummins’s Theoretical Influences
Chapter 17. Colette Despagne & Bapujee Biswabandan: Empowering Education in the Global South: Leveraging Cummins’s Theories in Multilingual Mexico and India
Testimonial: Kathleen Heugh: “From Shame to Struggle”—Unshackling Apartheid and Colonial Discourses in South Africa
Chapter 18. Carol Benson & Kimmo Kosonen: The Impact of Jim Cummins’s Work on the Policies and Practices of Multilingual Education Internationally
Testimonial: Joseph Lo Bianco: Observing Jim Cummins Improve the World
Testimonial: Ryuko Kubota: A Shining Star That Has Guided Me
Afterword. Alma Flor Ada