Resistance to the Known [electronic resource] : Counter-Conduct in Language Education /
Rivers, D.editor.
This volume stands as a demonstration of resistance to 'the known' (i.e. the tyranny of the expected) through individual and collective counter-conduct within the domain of language education. Supported by data drawn from various local and national contexts, the book challenges the pedagogies, practices, and policies of 'the institution'.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Contributors; Introduction: Conceptualizing 'the Known' and the Relational Dynamics of Power and Resistance; Part I: Countering Micro-Processes in Local Contexts; 1 Language-Learner Tourists in Australia: Problematizing 'the Known' and its Impact on Interculturality; 2 A Greek Tragedy: Understanding and Challenging 'the Known' from a Complexity Perspective; 3 Symbolic Violence and Pedagogical Abuse in the Language Classroom; 4 The Authorities of Autonomy and English Only: Serving Whose Interests?
Part II: Countering Macro-Processes in National Contexts5 On the Challenge of Teaching English in Latin America with Special Emphasis on Brazil; 6 Dialogizing 'the Known': Experience of English Teaching in Japan through an Assay of Derivatives as a Dominant Motif; 7 The Impossibility of Defining and Measuring Intercultural Competencies; 8 Transcending Language Subject Boundaries through Language Teacher Education; 9 English-as-Panacea: Untangling Ideology from Experience in Compulsory English Education in Japan; Epilogue; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
This volume stands as a demonstration of resistance to 'the known' (i.e. the tyranny of the expected) through individual and collective counter-conduct within the domain of language education. Supported by data drawn from various local and national contexts, the book challenges the pedagogies, practices, and policies of 'the institution'.
Language and education.
Language and languages-Study and teaching.
Teaching.
English language.
Linguistics.
Language Education.
Language Teaching.
Teaching and Teacher Education.
English.
Linguistics, general.