ERIC Number: EJ1481610
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Sep
Pages: 13
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ISSN: ISSN-1056-7941
EISSN: EISSN-1949-3533
Available Date: 2025-07-10
Bilingual Motherhood and Hope in Language Teacher Education: A Critical Autoethnography
TESOL Journal, v16 n3 e70051 2025
In this critical autoethnography, I draw from MotherScholar, entanglement, and border theories to weave my identity as a Latina mother, doing the work of linguistic maintenance for my bilingual son, and my identity as a language teacher educator, grappling with moral injury. I particularly address my own critical consciousness: the ways in which I have navigated my newly understood complicity in the moral injury of teachers of bi/multilingual learners and the avenues I have sought to remain hopeful and courageous considering intractable ethical educational dilemmas and dehumanization in schools.
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Mothers, Expectation, Language Teachers, Teacher Education, Autobiographies, Ethnography, Hispanic Americans, Language Maintenance, Parent Child Relationship, Sons, Professional Identity, Moral Values, Bilingual Students, Ethics, Humanization
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Author Affiliations: 1College of Education & Human Development, Early Childhood & Elementary Education, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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