With the increasing number of young emergent multilingual language learners in transnational contexts, there is a growing need to explore and examine how emergent multilingual children develop their translingual competence and how they exercise their agency to engage in translingual practices across different settings (e.g., home and school). Yet,…

The purpose of this study was to examine and understand the decision making process for keeping or cutting music programs in one selected public school district. Berkley School District, in the Detroit suburb of Berkley, Michigan, has not made extreme cuts to the music program in over ten years, nor have they specifically targeted their music…

Guided by symbolic interactionism and cultural historical activity theory this study investigated how four bilingual Latina/o pre-service teachers use language (Spanish and English) and culture, defined as social practices, as instructional resources in mathematics. The setting of the study was an after-school bilingual mathematics program, namely…