Towards Justice and Sociopolitical Well-Being in Language Education: Pedagogies de Cariño for (Bilingual) Latine Youth

In this talk, Dr. Morales discusses her work (Morales & Saravia, 2019) and that of other scholars that identify the importance of care (Valenzuela, 1999) or cariño (Curry, 2016; Lomelí, 2023) as crucial for nondominant students of color. Dr. Morales addresses the importance of demonstrating affection to students, but more importantly working toward the sociopolitical well-being of Latine youth, who are often at various stages of engaging in new linguistic communities of practice.