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Bilingual EducationPresentation Delivery Language
EnglishDescription
In this interactive panel, we discuss innovative practices in the development of bilingual teacher education (BTE) program, curriculum, and pedagogy. The papers evidence how scholars in BTE deliberately work from conceptual, implementation, and/or research foci to promote teacher development aimed at effecting change in the education of multilingual learners. Collectively, we (re)affirm a commitment to enact a BTE agenda for “preparing educators for a new world” (Levine, 2016); “educar para transformar” (Flores et al., 2011), and/or “learning to teach against the (new) grain” (Cochran-Smith, 2001) —an ever-relevant calling responsive to advancing BTE scholarship, practice, and advocacy in 21st century societies.