Assistant Professor of Bilingual/Biliteracy Education
University of Texas at El Paso
Dan Heiman is an Assistant Professor of Bilingual/Biliteracy Education, a former elementary bilingual teacher in the borderlands, and teacher educator at the University of Veracruz. He uses critical ethnographic methods to examine how key stakeholders in dual language bilingual education engage in praxis with/in and alongside their comunidades and bilingually prepares future bilingual teachers. He is a co-editor of Critical Consciousness in Dual Language Bilingual Education: Case Studies on Policy and Practice (Routledge), which offers vivid snapshots of praxis in DLBE sites across the US. His work has appeared in Anthropology & Education Quarterly, The Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, Language Policy, The Reading Teacher, and La Revista Bilingüe.
Preparing Teachers to Serve and Support Emergent Bilingual Learners
Saturday, February 17, 2024
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM MST