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Language, Space, and Power describes the sociolinguistic and sociocultural life of a Spanish-English dual language classroom in which attention is given to not only the language learning processes at hand but also to how race, ethnicity, and gender dynamics interact within the language acquisition process.
"Dr. Hadi-Tabassum’s critical ethnography of a fifth grade dual language classroom challenges the positivist view of language and culture in education as bounded, essentialized entities. Dr. Hadi-Tabassum explores how students utilized resources in music, language arts, and popular culture to make fluid the seemingly clear and definite border between English and Spanish and Anglo and Latino/a cultures. In these “third spaces” where English and Spanish mixed in politicized and poetic forms, Dr. Hadi-Tabassum offers a vision of contemporary education within hybrid and contingent events."
Samina Hadi-Tabassum received a doctorate degree from Columbia University and is currently an Assistant Professor at Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois. She is the director of the Bilingual and ESL Program. Her research interests include bilingual education, multicultural education, and linguistics.
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Research Setting
Chapter 2. Language Space and Power: Examining Metalinguistic Conflicts Along the Borderlands
Chapter 3. The Cheers: The Ethics of Making Aesthetic Judgements
Chapter 4. Jack, Su Mama Y El Burro: The Performitivity of Race, Gender and Language in a Bilingual Play
Chapter 5. The Flow and Movement of Music: Appropriating the Third Space
Chapter 6. Conclusion: False Binaries and True Dialectics
References
Index