EBS Diversity and Equity Featured Speaker

Connecting Gentrification Processes of Bilingual Education to U.S. Cities: Uncovering Possibilities of Resistance and Transformation

Featured Speaker: James A. Gambrell, Ed.D. Professor of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education, University of Northern Colorado

The Event

Scholars have been using the concept of gentrification to describe the processes by which primarily White, heritage English speakers have mainstreamed and occupied narratives, spaces, and resources in bilingual education.

In this session, Dr. James A. Gambrell deepens this critique by putting the gentrification metaphor in more literal conversation with processes of urban gentrification, along with grassroots efforts to resist it. The talk ends with a call to education scholars to step outside our micro-fields of scholarship to urge students to connect, interrogate, and disrupt societal patterns of injustice.

About the Speaker

James A. Gambrell, Ed.D. is Professor of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education in the School of Teacher Education at the University of Northern Colorado. His research focuses on bilingual education including language policy and planning, bilingual teacher preparation pathways, and classroom practices that engage language minoritized students, families, and communities.

Access Information

This event will be held virtually and in person. Please use the link below to join the session:

• Join via Zoom: Click here to join the meeting