Race, empire, and English language teaching
Subtitle: creating responsible and ethical anti-racist practice
By: Suhanthie Motha
Series: Multicultural education series; Multicultural education series (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Teachers College, Columbia University
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780807755129; 9780807755136
Subjects: Linguistic minorities; Foreign speakers; Study and teaching; Social aspects; Education; English language
Description: This timely book takes a critical look at the teaching of English, showing how language is used to create hierarchies of cultural privilege in public schools across the country. Motha closely examines the work of four ESL teachers who developed anti-racist pedagogical practices during their first year of teaching. Their experiences, and those of their students, provide a compelling account of how new teachers might gain agency for culturally responsive teaching in spite of school cultures that often discourage such approaches. The author combines current research with her original analyses to shed light on real classroom situations faced by teachers of linguistically diverse populations. This book will help pre- and in-service teachers to think about such challenges as differential achievement between language learners and native-speakers; about hierarchies of languages and language varieties; about the difference between an accent identity and an incorrect pronunciation; and about the use of students first languages in English classes. This resource offers implications for classroom teaching, educational policy, school leadership, and teacher preparation, including reflection questions at the end of each chapter. -- Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: Introduction; title: Operating in concert : empure, race, and language ideologies; title: Teaching empire or teaching English; title: English, antiracist pedagogies and multiculturalism; title: Producing place and race: language varieties and nativeness; title: Toward a provincialized English; title: Appendix: Telling someone else's stories.