| Description |
xiii, 243 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Contents note continued: 8.Transcending Language Subject Boundaries through Language Teacher Education / Cathy Pomphrey -- 9.English-as-Panacea: Untangling Ideology from Experience in Compulsory English Education in Japan / Julian Pigott |
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pt. I Countering Micro-Processes in Local Contexts -- 1.Language-Learner Tourists in Australia: Problematizing ̀the Known' and its Impact on Interculturality / Phiona Stanley -- 2.A Greek Tragedy: Understanding and Challenging ̀the Known' from a Complexity Perspective / Achilleas Kostoulas -- 3.Symbolic Violence and Pedagogical Abuse in the Language Classroom / Jacqueline Widin -- 4.The Authorities of Autonomy and English Only: Serving Whose Interests? / Damian J. Rivers -- pt. II Countering Macro-Processes in National Contexts -- 5.On the Challenge of Teaching English in Latin America with Special Emphasis on Brazil / Kanavillil Rajagopalan -- 6.Dialogizing ̀the Known': Experience of English Teaching in Japan through an Assay of Derivatives as a Dominant Motif / Glenn Toh -- 7.The Impossibility of Defining and Measuring Intercultural Competencies / Karin Zotzmann -- |
| Summary |
This volume stands as a demonstration of resistance to the known through individual and collective counter-conduct within the domain of language education. Supported by data drawn from various local and national contexts, the professional experiences of the authors reveal how the pedagogies, practices, and policies of 'the institution' often reflect an imperative to provide a brand of language education disinterested with the ideological and political foundations of its own imposition. While being forthright in its quest to resist and deconstruct certain 'knowns', the primary sentiment underpinning this volume does not withhold the hand of reconciliation, recreation and reconstruction. As a project of hope, this volume reminds all language educators that our role is multifaceted, continual and cast in service not of our special interest groups, our institutional paymasters, or ourselves, but rather of the individual students who trust that our professionalism will support them in a self-authoring an empowering educational experience without compromising their integrity as human beings |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Creative teaching -- Cross-cultural studies.
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English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers -- Cross-cultural studies.
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| Author |
Rivers, Damian J., editor
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| LC no. |
2014029664 |
| ISBN |
9781137345189 (hardback) |
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