Writing

Peer-reviewed publications, public essays on language and epistemic access, and longform writing for educators, policymakers, and the general reader.

Writing

Peer-reviewed work, public essays, and longform writing.

A working catalogue across three registers: academic publications, public-intellectual writing on language and epistemic access, and longform reflective writing on the work of being a scholar-practitioner.

Peer-reviewed publications

  • Forthcoming Knowing, doing, being: Education and climate change in Morocco With Fernando Reimers (Harvard Graduate School of Education). Submitted to the International Journal of Educational Development. A critical case study of Morocco’s national education response to climate change, structured around the Knowing-Doing-Being framework and triangulating PISA 2018, TIMSS 2023, and OECD 2022 evidence.
  • Under review How preschool teachers in linguistically diverse, English-medium settings use children’s home languages during instruction Manuscript in preparation for the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism (IJBEB). Drawing on the stance/design/shifts framework (García et al., 2017) and the belonging framework (Aleksic and García, 2024) to analyze translanguaging shifts in US PreK classrooms.
  • In preparation Authentic learning activity, pedagogical mediation, and meaningful learning: A configurational framework for instructional quality Conceptual paper. Target outlet: Educational Researcher. A three-construct framework treating linguistic accessibility as a constitutive (rather than accommodative) dimension of authentic task design.
  • In preparation Registerial multilingualism: A construct for Moroccan multilingual competence and ELT practice Concept paper. Target outlet: International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. First presented at the EduLingua Summit (Applied Linguistics and Language Studies), 2026.
  • Adult-DLL language match in US preschool classrooms Manuscript in preparation. First of the three-paper dissertation program from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
  • Administrator and teacher perspectives on supporting Dual Language Learners in linguistically diverse PreK classrooms Manuscript in preparation. Third of the three-paper dissertation program.

    • For doctoral dissertation, conference proceedings, and the full publication record, please see the CV.

    Public essays

    A quarterly cadence of public-intellectual writing is in development. The first essay — on language-of-instruction policy as epistemic exclusion, with Morocco’s multilingual landscape as critical case — is in preparation for one of TelQuel, Le Desk, Economia, or a LinkedIn longform.

    This section will be populated as essays are published. The thematic anchors are: language and epistemic access, early childhood as a developmental and political site, the teacher question in postcolonial education systems, and the integral pedagogy of attention.

  • In preparation Language-of-instruction policy as epistemic exclusion: Morocco as a critical case Target outlets: TelQuel, Le Desk, Economia, or LinkedIn longform. ~1,500–2,000 words.

    • LinkedIn longform

    A sequence of short and medium-form posts on the intellectual journey of an early-career scholar working between Morocco and the global academic system. Topics across 2026 include the appointment at UM6P-ISE, the founding-year experience of building doctoral education, panel reflections from the Forum National de l’Enseignant du Préscolaire, the launching of EDU720, and ISE Science Week.

    Posts are linked from my LinkedIn profile.

    Books and longer projects

    A children’s book program is in development under the umbrella of the Epistemic Access initiative — a series of multilingual, scientifically rigorous, developmentally appropriate texts beginning with a project on the vertebrate fossils of Moroccan phosphates, in partnership with Nour-Eddine Jalil at the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris.

    A monograph on epistemic access, multilingual education, and the design of early-childhood systems — a project of several years — is in conceptual development.

    Music

    The album How it Began (2021) is the first artistic output that has been part of this intellectual life. See the Music section.