RECLAIMING BILINGUAL EDUCATORS CULTURAL RESOURCES - AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL APPROACH

A process of critical reflection, mediated by autobiographical writing can help bilingual educators reclaim cultural resources and consider how they might be integrated into their personal teaching philosophies . In their personal teaching philosophies, minority educators can brid ge life history, culture, and pedagogy and construct their role identi ty as teachers in a manner that supports minority children and their p arents. The types of cultural resources identified in bilingual educat ors' autobiographies are presented along with a case study of a biling ual educator that examines the role that a key cultural value related to education plays in her personal teaching philosophy.