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Shaping Multilingualism in California: Educators’ Critical Voices in an Evolving Landscape examines how educators, faculty, and communities are transforming bilingual teacher education across California. Centered on the California State University system, this volume presents the CSU as a laboratory for multilingual justice shaped by innovation, struggle, advocacy, and institutional change.
Contributors explore bilingual teacher shortages, shifting policies, regional teacher pipelines, grant projects, program redesign and curricular innovation, and community-centered program design. The book also highlights pioneering preparation pathways for Filipino, Korean, Hmong, and other Asian and heritage languages, showing how institutional commitment can challenge linguistic erasure and expand access.
Across urban, rural, and regional contexts, the chapters connect bilingual teacher preparation to racial justice, language reclamation, critical biliteracies, and culturally proficient practice. Featuring a foreword by Ofelia García, scholarly commentaries, this collection offers a vision for educators, researchers, policymakers, and advocates committed to multilingualism, equity, and linguistic justice.
Highlights
- The first volume dedicated to bilingual teacher education across the California State University (CSU) system.
- A timely call to action advancing multilingualism, equity, and linguistic justice in a shifting political landscape.
- Showcases innovative teacher preparation models and community partnerships transforming bilingual education.
- Highlights pioneering work in Korean, Filipino, Hmong, and other heritage and Asian language education.
