Title: Spirituality and English language teaching : religious explorations of teacher identity, pedagogy and context /
Authors: Wong, Mary Shepard,; Mahboob, Ahmar,
Year: 2018
Subjects: English language Study and teaching Foreign speakers; English teachers Religious life.; English language Religious aspects; English language Religious aspects; English language Study and teaching Foreign speakers
Abstract: "This collection of 16 reflective accounts and data-driven studies explores the interrelationship of religious identity and English Language Teaching (ELT). It addresses the ways in which faith and ELT intersect in the realms of teacher identity, pedagogy, and the context and content of ELT" --
Contents: Foreword: Complexifying our understanding of spirituality / Suresh Canagarajah -- Introduction: Why a book on spirituality and language teaching? / Mary Shepard Wong -- Part I: Religious faith and teacher identity: The dangers and delights of teacher spiritual identity as pedagogy / Mary Shepard Wong -- Buddhist principles and the development leadership skills in english language program administration  and teaching / Maryann Christison -- Attempting interfaith dialogue in TESOL: a duoethnography / Joel Heng Hartse and Saeed Nazari -- Response to Part 1. Possibilities for nonattachment: investigating the affective dimension of imposition / Ryuko Kubota -- Part II. Religious faith and pedagogical practice. A Buddhist in the classroom revisited / Sid Brown -- The relevance of Hinduism to english language teaching and learning / Bal Krishna Sharma -- Multiple, complex, and fluid religious and spiritual Influences on english language educators / Stephanie Vandrick -- Response to Part 2. Religious faith and pedagogical practice: extending the map. A response to Brown, Sharma and Vandrick / David Smith -- Part III: Religious faith and the language learning context : Language and religion in the construction of the Lebanese identity / Kassim Shaaban -- Teachers' perceptions of the interface between religious values and language pedagogy in Egypt / Deena Boraie, Atta Gebril, and Raafat Gabriel -- Church-sponsored English as Second Language in Western Canada: Grassroots expressions of spiritual and social practice / Carolyn Kristjánsson -- Response to Part 3: Religious faith and the language learning context: exploring the interface / Brian Morgan -- Spirituality and english language teaching: moving forward / Ahmar Mahboob and Eve Courtney -- Afterword: spirituality in language teaching / Henry Widdowson.