Teaching World Languages for Social Justice
Subtitle: a Sourcebook of Principles and Practices
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Mahwah
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9781410617194
Subjects: Study and teaching; Language and languages
Description: Offers principles based on theory, and innovative concepts, approaches and practices illustrated through concrete examples, for promoting social justice and developing a critical praxis in foreign language classrooms in the US and in wider world language communities. The text is designed as a sourcebook for translating theory into practice.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Leaving the Marketplace; 2 Dialogical Classrooms: Foundations of a New Foundation; 3 Teacher Preparation as the Basis for Praxis; 4 The Politics of Grammar and Vocabulary; 5 Canon Fire: Why Literature Still Has Its Place; 6 Critical Discourse and Visual Analysis as Pedagogy; 7 Crossing the Lines: Interdisciplinary Possibilities; 8 A Small Virtual World After All: Communities in Cyberspace; 9 Reconcile! Toward a Unified Discipline; Afterword; Appendix: Language Spoken at Home for the United States: 2000; References; Index.