Decoloniality, Language, and Literacy: Conversations with Teacher Educators

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Ayah Issa

Ayah Issa is a fourth-year doctoral candidate in Michigan State University’s Curriculum, Instruction, and Teacher Education program. Her research considers her own time as a K-12 student and, subsequently, as a teacher in the Midwestern United States with a predominantly Arab-American population. Reflective of her time in this environment, Ayah’s research explores multilingual education, language practices, effects of diaspora, and multiculturalism. She is especially interested in how curricula and teacher instruction have been shaped by white normative standards and instead, can evolve to be culturally and linguistically responsive to the influx of multilingual students in U.S. schools.