Julia Menard-Warwick publishes new book
Her recent Routledge volume, "Bilingual Parent Participation in a Divided School Community", examines language ideologies, language and power, and parent collaboration in diverse educational contexts.
Menard-Warwick 2018 book cover
Highlighting data from a two-year ethnographic study of parent participation in a bilingual school community in California, the book grounds this discussion in theories of discourse and bilingualism, with a focus on translanguaging and translingual practice. The volume points to a range of challenges and questions posed by the parents’ efforts to unite as a single school community, including linguistic inequality, cultural divides, and differing implicit beliefs on language.
