 | Jeff Bale Associate Professor Program Coordinator, Language and Literacies Education Program email: jeff.bale@utoronto.ca website: https://wordpress.oise.utoronto.ca/lpp2017/ Department: Curriculum, Teaching and Learning | |
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Research Overview My research includes three broad areas. First, I'm interested in how language policies and language policy advocates construe the value of language education. Are languages resources for individual social mobility, national prosperity, and/or geopolitical security? Or do we have rights to use, learn, and teach language? Some of my work looks at the tension between these ideological rationales historically. Other work is more theoretical in developing a political-economy approach to language rights. Still other work is more focused on policy advocacy and activism related to language education. Second, I'm interested in education policy reforms in Germany and their impact on racialized students there. I've conducted one major study of a partially-failed policy measure in Hamburg, and look forward to future research there. Finally, and most recently, I have begun to study language teacher education. One angle of this work has been the relationship between teachers' language proficiency and their pedagogical practice. As part of the instructional team for OISE's new "Supporting English Language Learners" course in the MT program, I'm collaborating on ethnographic inquiry of how this course unfolds. Our project recently received funding through SSHRC's Insight Grant program. Curriculum Vitae http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/Curriculum_Vitae/Jeff_Bale_CV.pdf Academic History Ph.D., Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Arizona State University, 2008 M.S. (with distinction), German Literature and Linguistics, Georgetown University, 1997 B.A. (with high honors), German, DePaul University, 1994 From 2008-2014, I was Assistant Professor in the Department of Teacher Education at Michigan State University. Teaching Overview CTL 3000H Foundations in Bilingual and Multicultural Education (LLE program) CTL 3002H Second Language Methodologies (LLE program) CTL 3810H Second Language Classroom Research (LLE program) CTL 3018H Language Planning and Policy (LLE program) CTL 7019H Supporting English Language Learners (MT program) Prior to joining the faculty at OISE, I taught undergraduate- and graduate-level language teaching methods courses for teacher candidates, master's courses for practicing teachers on language diversity, second language learning, and educational technology, and doctoral courses on U.S. educational historiography, educational policy analysis, second language education policy, and qualitative research methods. Representative Publications Bale, J., & Kawaguchi, M. (2020). Heritage-language education policies, anti-racist activism and discontinuity in 1970s and 1980s Toronto. Critical Inquiry in Language Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/15427587.2020.1713787 Bale, J. (2019). Racialized resistance to the Heritage Languages Program in Ontario. In T. Ricento (Ed.), Language politics and policies: Perspectives from the United States and Canada (pp. 215–233). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Bale, J. (2019). Neoliberal education policy and the regulation of racial and linguistic difference in Ontario schools. In S. Chitpin & J. Portelli (Eds.), Confronting educational policy in neoliberal times: Issues, challenges and possibilities from an international perspective (pp. 117–131). New York: Routledge. Kim, H., Burton, J., Ahmed, T., & Bale, J. (2019). Linguistic hierarchisation in education policy development: Ontario’s Heritage Languages Program. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2019.1618318 Bale, J. (2016). Spectator democracy: An intersectional analysis of education reform in Hamburg, Germany. European Education, 48, 23-42. Bale, J. (2015). Language planning and policy and global political economy. In T. Ricento (Ed.), Language policy, political economy, and English in a global context (pp. 72-96) Oxford: Oxford University Press. Bale, J. (2015). English-only to the core: Bilingual education and the Common Core State Standards. Rethinking Schools. Bale, J. (2014). Heritage language education policy and the “national interest.” Review of Research in Education, 38, 166-188. Bale, J. (2013). Weg da—Wir wollen lernen! Education reform in Hamburg, Germany in neoliberal times. Teachers College Record, 115, 1-36. Bale, J. & Knopp, S. (Eds.) (2012). Education and capitalism: Struggles for learning and liberation. Chicago: Haymarket Books. Bale, J. (2011). Tongue-tied: Imperialism and second language education in the United States. Critical Education, 2(8), 1-25. Bale, J. (2010). International comparative perspectives on heritage language education policy research. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 30, 42-65. Research Grants and ContractsYear (status): 2017-2020 Source: SSHRC Insight Grant Amount: $154,973 My Role: Applicant Collaboration: Co-Applicants: Antoinette Gagn, Julie Kerekes (OISE) Title/Purpose: More Than Just Good Teaching: Mainstream Teacher Education for Supporting English Language Learners and Teacher Education Policy in Ontario Year (status): 2016-2018 Source: SSHRC Insight Development Grant Amount: $64,999 My Role: Co-applicant Collaboration: Applicant: Peter Ives, University of Winnipeg; co-applicant: Eve Haque, York University Title/Purpose: How States Promote Global English: Shifting Priorities in Education Policy Honours and Awards Finalist, Founders Emergent Scholars Award, International Society for Language Studies, 2012 Professional Activities Associate Editor, International Multilingual Research Journal (2017-present) Associate Editor, Journal of Teacher Education (2018-present) Book Review Editor, International Multilingual Research Journal (2015-2017) Editorial Board memberships: Critical Education (2014-present) Journal of Language, Identity, and Education (2012-present) Teachers College Record (2013-present) Research in the Teaching of English (2014-2016) Journal of Literacy Research (2009-2011) Advisory Board memberships: Language Policy Research Network (2011-present; http://www.cal.org/lpren/index.html) Center for Language Teaching Advancement, College of Arts and Letters, Michigan State University (2011-2014; http://celta.msu.edu/) World Languages Advisory Committee, Michigan Department of Education (2012-2014) Other Information My academic work is rooted in the decade I spent as a second language teacher in urban public schools in the United States. For most of this time, I worked with newcomer immigrant students in middle schools in Washington, DC and Chicago, but also taught newcomer ESL and German in a Tempe, Arizona high school. I was an active union member throughout my tenure as a K-12 teacher, serving as building representative or on the building-level union committee for eight years. I also served on the Executive Board for the Washington Teachers Union, Local 6, American Federation of Teachers. |
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