Migrant maths teachers: deficit, translanguaging, and growing authority

Benson, Alan (2022) Migrant maths teachers: deficit, translanguaging, and growing authority. Languages, 7 (2(136)). pp. 1-14. ISSN 2226-471X

Preview

Text languages-07-00136.pdf - Published Version Available under License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Download (363kB) | Preview

Abstract / Description

This article draws from a longitudinal case study of trainee (the term used in official documentation related to Initial Teacher Training (ITT) in England and with some reservations throughout this paper) and early-career teachers (ECT) of mathematics. The sample represents migrant teachers that the Immigration Act of 2020 seeks to attract to the UK to address national shortages identified by the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC). The analysis examines how multimodal semiotic repertoires of language, bodies and pedagogical practices are entangled in classroom encounters. It shows how the ideology of Standard English can create an uncomfortable sense of different deficits amongst multilingual professionals and evidences how these can be addressed through a model of authority in which teachers get the right mix of mathematical subject knowledge (epistemic authority), the use of school practices and expectations (practical authority), and individual biography (personal authority). It uses translanguaging spaces to examine how teachers use communicative repertoires to orchestrate semiotic resources and manage their identity positions in ways that promote intercultural competencies during the daily encounters of teachers and their pupils.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	** From MDPI via Jisc Publications Router
Uncontrolled Keywords:	migrant; maths teachers; deficit; authority; translanguaging; multimodality; repertoire; contextualization cues; identity alignment
Subjects:	300 Social sciences > 360 Social problems & services; associations 300 Social sciences > 370 Education 500 Natural Sciences and Mathematics > 510 Mathematics
Department:	School of Social Sciences and Professions
SWORD Depositor:	Pub Router
Depositing User:	Pub Router
Date Deposited:	24 Jun 2022 13:34
Last Modified:	24 Jun 2022 13:34
URI:	https://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/id/eprint/7689

Downloads

Actions (login required)

View Item