Adopting a critical perspective on pedagogy -- Challenges in researching resistance -- Resistance to English in historical perspective -- Conflicting curricula : interrogating student opposition -- Competing pedagogies: understanding teacher opposition -- Clashing codes : negotiating classroom interaction -- Contrasting literacies : appropriating academic texts -- The politics and pedagogy of appropriating discourses
Summary
"This book describes the creative strategies employed by teachers and students in periphery communities to use the English language in a manner that suits their needs and aspirations while subtly resisting the linguistic imperialism that many scholars have identified as the consequence of the global ELT enterprise. After developing trends and ideas from these oppositional strategies, the book goes on to outline elements of critical pedagogy suitable for English Language Teaching in formerly colonized communities."--BOOK JACKET