In the framework of UniBO's "Bando Nord America" Grant 2024, Prof. Inmaculada M. García-Sánchez from the University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA) will hold two doctoral lectures that are open to the entire UniBO community:

Learning to Notice Language: Cultivating Youth Language Brokers’ Critical Metalinguistic Awareness for Linguistic Resilience

       1/12/25 h 9.30-12.30, Aula 24 of the Teaching Hub, Viale F. Corridoni 20, Forlì, hosted by DIT

Designing for Dignity: Community-Engaged Approaches to Doing Research with Immigrant Children and Families

       9/12/25 h 14-17, Aula Ardigò - Palazzo Hercolani, Bologna, hosted by SDE in collaboration with EDU and  LILEC.

Drawing on a multi-method ethnographic approach to learning and schooling, Prof. García’s research agenda offers a critical dialogue between educational ethnography, linguistic anthropology, and migration studies. Her work explores the relation between language practices, the schooling of immigrant children and youth, and larger sociopolitical processes, with a particular emphasis on how educational justice intersects with the cultural politics of recognition and belonging that immigrant children and youth must negotiate on a daily basis. She places language and other semiotic processes at the center of her analysis, combining ethnographic, historical, and discursive analytic approaches to offer a multi-layered and empirically-grounded view of central issues of concern in educational scholarship: 1) the tensions between educational ideologies and actual classroom practice, 2) the linguistic and social stratification of non-dominant students in educational spaces, and 3) making learning processes visible, including how immigrant children themselves actively make sense of learning contexts. 

Her publications and research interests can be found at https://seis.ucla.edu/faculty/inmaculada-ma-garcia-sanchez/.