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Offering a wealth of art-based practices, this volume invites readers to reimagine the joyful possibility and power of language and culture in language and literacy learning. Understanding art as a tool that can be used for decolonizing minds, the contributors explore new methods and strategies for supporting the language and literacy learning skills of multilingual students. Contributors are artists, educators, and researchers who bring together cutting-edge theory and practice to present a broad range of traditional and innovative art forms and media that spotlight the roles of artful resistance and multilingual activism. Featuring questions for reflection and curricular applications, chapters address theoretical issues and pedagogical strategies related to arts and language learning, including narrative inquiry, journaling, social media, oral storytelling, and advocacy projects. The innovative methods and strategies in this book demonstrate how arts-based, decolonizing practices are essential in fostering inclusive educational environments and supporting multilingual students’ cultural and linguistic repertoires. Transformative and engaging, this text is a key resource for educators, scholars, and researchers in literacy and language education.

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What a novel but powerful and essential concept: that art is a way of listening. In this book-international in scope and wide-ranging in its understanding of the arts-the authors present inspiring portraits of using the arts to affirm languages that are suppressed or that may soon disappear unless they are reclaimed and revitalized. They remind us that if we just listen to our students, and work respectfully and collaboratively with their families and communities, then the education of all students-monolingual, bilingual, multilingual, and emergent-will inevitably be enriched. --Sonia Nieto, Professor Emerita, University of Massachusetts, USA In this important new book, the contributors demonstrate how art can be incorporated into the educational experiences of emergent bilinguals. They also explain why we should use art to inspire and motivate students to dream and excel. --Pedro A. Noguera, Dean, Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California, USA The book provides educators with rigorous research and stories of inspiring practice to lead us into collaborative, meaningful and transformative action in our teaching and learning environments, Arts-infused strategies equip educators with examples that vigorously combat anti-Blackness; authentically welcome immigrant families; decolonize Indigenous communities; refute the violence of displacement; disrupt discrimination of cultural identity and challenge hierarchical frameworks on what counts as knowledge. --From the Foreword by Patty Bode, Southern Connecticut State University, USA

What a novel but powerful and essential concept: that art is a way of listening. In this book-international in scope and wide-ranging in its understanding of the arts-the authors present inspiring portraits of using the arts to affirm languages that are suppressed or that may soon disappear unless they are reclaimed and revitalized. They remind us that if we just listen to our students, and work respectfully and collaboratively with their families and communities, then the education of all students-monolingual, bilingual, multilingual, and emergent-will inevitably be enriched. --Sonia Nieto, Professor Emerita, University of Massachusetts, USA In this important new book, the contributors demonstrate how art can be incorporated into the educational experiences of emergent bilinguals. They also explain why we should use art to inspire and motivate students to dream and excel. --Pedro A. Noguera, Dean, Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California, USA The book provides educators with rigorous research and stories of inspiring practice to lead us into collaborative, meaningful and transformative action in our teaching and learning environments, Arts-infused strategies equip educators with examples that vigorously combat anti-Blackness; authentically welcome immigrant families; decolonize Indigenous communities; refute the violence of displacement; disrupt discrimination of cultural identity and challenge hierarchical frameworks on what counts as knowledge. --From the Foreword by Patty Bode, Southern Connecticut State University, USA What a novel but powerful and essential concept: that art is a way of listening. In this book-international in scope and wide-ranging in its understanding of the arts-the authors present inspiring portraits of using the arts to affirm languages that are suppressed or that may soon disappear unless they are reclaimed and revitalized. They remind us that if we just listen to our students, and work respectfully and collaboratively with their families and communities, then the education of all students-monolingual, bilingual, multilingual, and emergent-will inevitably be enriched. --Sonia Nieto, Professor Emerita, University of Massachusetts, USA In this important new book, the contributors demonstrate how art can be incorporated into the educational experiences of emergent bilinguals. They also explain why we should use art to inspire and motivate students to dream and excel. --Pedro A. Noguera, Dean, Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California, USA The book provides educators with rigorous research and stories of inspiring practice to lead us into collaborative, meaningful and transformative action in our teaching and learning environments, Arts-infused strategies equip educators with examples that vigorously combat anti-Blackness; authentically welcome immigrant families; decolonize Indigenous communities; refute the violence of displacement; disrupt discrimination of cultural identity and challenge hierarchical frameworks on what counts as knowledge. --From the Foreword by Patty Bode, Southern Connecticut State University, USA

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Amanda Claudia Wager is Canada Research Chair in Community-Engaged Research and Professor of Education at Vancouver Island University, Canada. Berta Rosa Berriz is Professor Emerita of Creative Arts and Learning at the Graduate School of Education at Lesley University, USA. Laura Ann Cranmer is a Professor of Indigenous / Xwulmuxw Studies at Vancouver Island University, Canada. Vivian Maria Poey is Professor of Photography and Integrated Studies at Lesley University, USA.

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