Writing the Threads of Our Lives: Stories from a Bilingual Family Writing Project
Culturally Sustaining and Revitalizing Pedagogies
ISBN: 978-1-78441-261-6, eISBN: 978-1-78441-260-9
Publication date: 5 June 2017
Abstract
This chapter discusses a family writing project that a third and fourth grade English Language Development (ELD) teacher created with and for her students and families. The project took place within a state with English-only mandates, restrictive curriculum, and harsh anti-immigrant politics. The author outlines the ways that the project worked to disrupt the restrictive policies to honor and celebrate the cultures, languages, and ways of knowing and students and families by inviting them to write and share stories from their lived experiences.
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Citation
Flores, T.T. (2017), "Writing the Threads of Our Lives: Stories from a Bilingual Family Writing Project", Culturally Sustaining and Revitalizing Pedagogies (Advances in Research on Teaching, Vol. 29), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 209-223. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-368720150000029018
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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