(DOWNLOAD) "What Do We Really Mean when We Say "Bilingual/Bicultural"?" by Multicultural Education ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: What Do We Really Mean when We Say "Bilingual/Bicultural"?
- Author : Multicultural Education
- Release Date : January 22, 2006
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 177 KB
Description
This article is the first in a non-consecutive series of articles focusing on affirmative action in hiring and admissions in higher education. This first in the series is an autobiographical narrative account of a recent hiring experience the author had as a White woman in the field of multicultural education. The subsequent articles will articulate, in response to the issues raised in this first article, concrete strategies for achieving the original--and as of yet, largely unrealized--goal of affirmative action: racial and ethnic equity in the workplace and in the classroom. When I hear the phrase "bilingual/bicultural" used, my default assumption is that we are talking about Latina/o people. As time goes on, I am less comfortable with this use of the phrase, because, increasingly, it feels less like left-leaning, strategically chosen, but, ultimately pro-affirmative action coded speech, and more as if the conservative assault on affirmative action has precluded us from saying what we really want to say, what we mean to say, and what we need to say to continue to build racially and ethnically diverse schools and workplaces: namely, that we need to enroll and graduate as students, as well as to hire and promote as staff, Latina/o people.
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