 | Jeff Bale Associate Professor Program Coordinator, Language and Literacies Education Program email: jeff.bale@utoronto.ca Department: Curriculum, Teaching and Learning | |
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Research Overview My research interests focus on language-education policy and language-teacher education. I am currently leading three projects. More Than Just Good Teaching: Mainstream Teacher Education for Supporting English Learners --> I am PI on this SSHRC-funded project, collaborating with co-PIs Antoinette Gagn and Julie Kerekes. We are in our final year of the project, which documents how teacher candidates come to understand the social, political, theoretical, and pedagogical dimensions of supporting English Learners in their classrooms. Critical Perspectives on Teacher Education and Linguistic Diversity in Migration Societies --> I was recently awarded a Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers to work with partners at the University of Bremen in Germany to study teacher-education programs there and how their candidates come to understand the relationship between language, racism, and migration as they learn how to teach. This new project also complements other research I have published about education-policy reforms in Germany and their impact on racialized students there. Language, Race, and the Regulation of Difference: The Heritage Languages Program in Ontario, 1977--1987 -->This archival and oral-history project uses critical analysis of the HLP (1) to reveal the linguistic dimensions of systemic racism in Ontario's publicly-funded schools; (2) to examine historical efforts by parents, students, teachers, and other community members to challenge the linguistic dimensions of systemic racism at school; and (3) to use these historical experiences to inform current efforts to expand linguistic justice in Ontario schools. In addition to this research, I have collaborated with teachers at Downsview Secondary School to create and lead the Downsview-OISE Literacy Partnership, which places OISE teacher candidate with DSS students to support them in expanding their literacy practices. We are about to launch a similar program at Marc Garneau CI in fall 2020. 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 Kubota, R., & Bale, J. (2020). Bilingualism—but not plurilingualism—promoted by immersion education in Canada: Questioning equity for EAL students. TESOL Quarterly, 54, 773–785. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/tesq.575 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): 2021-2022 (funded) Source: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Type: Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers Amount: ~$65,000 (funding is in Euros) My Role: Applicant Collaboration: Sponsoring partner in Germany: Prof. Dr. Yasemin Karakaşoğlu, Universtitt Bremen Title/Purpose: Critical Perspectives on Teacher Education and Linguistic Diversity in Migration Societies Year (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 (2017-2020) Associate Editor, Journal of Teacher Education (2018-2020) Book Review Editor, International Multilingual Research Journal (2015-2017) Editorial Board memberships: Critical Education (2014-present) Journal of Language, Identity, and Education (2012-2019) Teachers College Record (2013-2019) 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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