A new book co-authored by Kara Mitchell Viesca, professor of teaching, learning and teacher education, aims to help K-12 teachers ensure their multilingual students have access to equitable, humanizing teaching and learning in all content areas.
The book, “Human Pedagogies with Multilingual Learners: Transforming Teaching in the Content Areas,” was co-authored by Viesca and Nancy Commins, clinical professor emerita at the University of Colorado Denver.
The two will host a presentation, book signing and reception from 5-6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 4, in room 227 of Carolyn Pope Edwards Hall on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s City Campus. The event is free and open to the public.
“Great teaching and learning happen in spaces where teachers and students can be and become the best, most desired versions of themselves,” Viesca said. “This book helps teachers create these spaces and foster deep, meaningful, authentic, and impactful humanizing pedagogies with multilingual learners and beyond.”
In each chapter, the authors provide teachers with research, ideas and resources to support their work with multilingual students, options for applying the ideas, and suggestions for sharing their knowledge in informal or formal professional learning spaces.
“In a time of so much division and dehumanization of the ‘other’, this is a book that helps us all as educators connect with our most authentic selves in order to create the possibility for our classrooms to be spaces where all students can feel a sense of mattering and belonging,” Viesca said.
Learn more about the book at routledge.com.
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