The Right to Culturally Sustaining Language Education for the New American Mainstream: An Introduction

Challenging Popularized Narratives of Immigrant Youth From West Africa: Examining Social Processes of Navigating Identities and Engaging Civically

“…In considering social processes impeding immigrant youth from West African countries from accessing high-quality, rigorous, and equitable educational experiences across educational settings, we construct an interdisciplinary framework grounded in social science and education research. The framework provides an understanding of immigrant youth from West African countries navigating identities and engaging civically as practices of decolonizing knowledge (Dei, 2000)—such as “heritage practices” (Paris, 2012, 2015) and attending to Indigenous knowledges (Dei, 2000). We then engage a Sankofan approach in an analysis of social processes of navigating identities and engaging civically as disrupting areas of inequality affecting schooling experiences of immigrant youth from West African countries.…”

A Social Constructivist Approach to Preparing School Counselors to Work Effectively in Urban Schools

“…There is much Spanglish, African American Language (AAL), and Hip Hop Nation Language (HHNL) to analyze throughout our urban school counseling experiences with students and families (Ardila 2005;Findegan and Rickford 2004;Paris 2015). In encounters with students in urban school settings, emails, texts, and tweets are all part of new forms of communicating.…”

Utilizing Latinx Cultural Wealth to Create a College‐Going Culture in High School

“…Latinx students know how to navigate within multiple, distinct worlds (Cashman, 2005). Each new context requires its own mental script and language code, as well as its own intellectual and behavioral conventions (Paris, 2015). Although Latinx students may move or change schools often, their navigational wealth provides them the ability to negotiate new and different social and educational contexts (Kanagala et al, 2016).…”