4-Trans Special Issue
In alignment with IJME’s ultimate goals of promoting cultural understanding and social justice amongst multicultural populations, this special issue seeks manuscripts that address recent approaches related to transnationalism, transculturalism, translanguaging and transdisciplinarity, (the “4 trans”) and contribute to advancing towards a reconceptualization of bilingual and multilingual teacher education. By centering on the “4 trans”, we highlight the centrality of these dimensions that intersect explicitly or implicitly in the way we view, define, and prepare bilingual and multilingual teachers. In particular, we seek manuscripts that aim to question monolithic approaches to teacher preparation that perpetuate restrictive, monoglossic, hegemonic, and colonizing/oppressive views of teachers and teacher education (Zúñiga et al., 2023). Our special issue, in this way, seeks to summon the scholarship of international researchers and practitioners who engage in critical, theoretical, and practical explorations of the “4 trans” dimensions in teacher education.
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