Join the Plurilingual Lab for our December Grad Talks session on Thursday, December 18, 2025, 12:00鈥�13:00 EST (Montreal), live on Zoom.
The Plurilingual Lab is pleased to host a January Grad Talk featuring research that examines the entanglements of race, language, and professional identity in teacher education. This session brings together scholars, educators, and community members interested in multilingualism, equity, and social justice in educational contexts.
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The talk, Racialized Language, Professional Becoming, and Multilingual Teacher Identities in Ontario Teacher Education, by (University of Toronto), investigates how multilingual teacher candidates understand and negotiate their professional identities within racially and linguistically structured teacher education programs.
Drawing on a qualitative case study informed by the framework of raciolinguicized teacher subjectivities , this presentation situates raciolinguistics as an analytic lens for examining teacher education. Based on in-depth semi-structured interviews with six Ontario K鈥�12 teacher candidates, the study explores how participants make sense of their hybrid multilingual and professional identities across coursework and practicum experiences, and how these processes are shaped by race, racialization, and dominant language ideologies. The findings foreground the interconnections among teacher candidates鈥� prior schooling, practicum placements, and institutional discourses in shaping professional self-understandings. The talk concludes by outlining implications for teacher educators seeking to more critically engage with multilingual identities in teacher education.
The presentations will be delivered in English, with examples from additional languages.
Full abstracts will be available on the Grad Talks page.
