"It Was Like a Magnet to Bring People In": School Administrators' Responses to the Gentrification of a Two-Way Bilingual Education (TWBE) Program in Central Texas. Issue 6 (November 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Heiman, Daniel; Murakami, Elizabeth
• Other Names: Murakami Elizabeth guest-editor.; Tran Natalie guest-editor.; Barnett Bruce guest-editor.; Hernandez Frank guest-editor.; Schares Denise guest-editor.; Choi Daniel guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Journal of school leadership. Volume 29:Issue 6(2019)
• Page Start: 454
• Page End: 472
• Publication Date: 2019-11
• Subjects: two-way bilingual education (TWBE) -- leadership in high-need schools -- gentrification -- neoliberalism -- critical ethnography; School management and organization -- United States -- Periodicals; Administration scolaire -- États-Unis -- Périodiques; School management and organization; United States; Periodicals; Electronic journals; 371.2
• DOI: 10.1177/1052684619864702
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2631-9659

Abstract

This critical ethnographic study investigated how gentrification processes shaped an elementary school's community and two-way bilingual education (TWBE) program in Central Texas. Findings revealed how these gentrification processes impacted the principal and vice principal at the ontological and epistemological levels, as their ways of being and knowing around their TWBE program were altered as a dual gentrification process pushed in new customers thirsting for bilingualism and pushed out Spanish-speaking families due to rapidly rising rents. Implications highlight the urgency for administrators to develop critical consciousness around the original race radical vision of bilingual education.