Christian and Critical English Language Educators in Dialogue (eBook, PDF)

Pedagogical and Ethical Dilemmas
Redaktion: Wong, Mary Shepard; Canagarajah, Suresh

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume critically examines how English language teaching professionals wrestle with ideological, pedagogical, and spiritual dilemmas as they seek to understand the place of faith in education.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135837853
• Artikelnr.: 42983008

Autorenporträt

Mary Shepard Wong is Associate Professor and Director of the graduate Teaching English as a Second Language (TESOL) Field-based Programs at Azusa Pacific University. She is past chair of the Christian Educators in TESOL Caucus (2004-2005). Suresh Canagarajah is Kirby Professor of Language Learning at Pennsylvania State University. He is the editor of the journal TESOL Quarterly.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Contributors' Spiritual Identification Statements
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 New Possibilities for the Spiritual and the Critical in Pedagogy
Suresh Canagarajah, Pennsylvania State University
Part I. Setting the Tone: Dialogue and Discourse
2 Nonjudgmental Steps on a Road to Understanding
Julian Edge, University of Manchester, UK
3 Is Dialogue Possible? Challenges to Evangelicals and Non-Evangelicals in
English Language Teaching
Bill Johnston, Indiana University, US
4 First the Log in Your Own Eye: Missionaries and their Critics
Michael Chamberlain, Azusa Pacific University, US
5 A Preliminary Survey of Christian English Language Teachers in Countries
that Restrict Missionary Activity
Karen Asenavage Loptes, University of Pennsylvania, US
Responses
6 Is Dialogue Possible? Anti-Intellectualism, Relativism, Politics and
Linguistic Ideologies
Alastair Pennycook, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
7 Dialogue and Discourse
Robert Phillipson, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
8 Questioning Religious "Ideals" and Intentionalities: Staving off
Religious Arrogance and Bigotry in ELT
Vaidehi Ramanathan, The University of California, Davis, US
9 Can We Talk? Finding a Platform for Dialogue among Values-based
Professionals in Post-Positivist Education
Suresh Canagarajah, Pennsylvania State University, US
Discussion Questions
Part II. Ideological and Political Dilemmas
10 Deconstructing/Reconstructing the Missionary English Teacher Identity
Mary Shepard Wong, Azusa Pacific University, US
11 English and Education in Anglophone Africa: Historical and Current
Realities
Sinfree Makoni and Busi Makoni, Pennsylvania State University, US
12 Confronting the Empire: Language Teachers as Charitable Guests
Myrrl Byler, Mennonite Partners in China, US
13 Christian English Teacher's Presence: Reflecting Constantine or Christ?
James Stabler-Havener, Sichuan Normal University, PR China
Responses
14 A Former "Missionary Kid" Responds
Stephanie Vandrick, University of San Francisco, US
15 Caught between Poststructuralist Relativism and Materialism or Liberal
and Critical Multiculturalism?
Manka M. Varghese, University of Washington, US
16 The English Language and the Word of God
Zoltán Dörnyei, University of Nottingham, UK
Discussion Questions
Part III. Pedagogical AND PROFESSIONAL Dilemmas
17 The Courage to Teach as a Non-Native teacher: The Confession of a
Christian Teacher
John Liang, Biola University, US
18 English Teachers, Language Learning, and the Issue of Power
Don Snow, University of Nanjing, PR China
19 Classroom Guidelines for Teachers with Convictions
Kitty B. Purgason, Biola University, US
Responses
20 The Pedagogical Dilemmas of Faith in ELT: A Dialogic Response
Brian Morgan, York University, Canada
21 Power and Change in ELT: Thoughts from a Fellow Traveler
Dana R. Ferris, University of California, Davis, US
22 Reconsidering Roadside Assistance: The Problem with Christian Approaches
to Teaching the English Language
Terry A. Osborn, Fordham University, US
Discussion Questions
Part IV. Spiritual AND ETHICAL Dilemmas
23 Spiritual Dimensions in Language Teaching: A Personal Reflection
Ryuko Kubota, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
24 Spiritual Lessons Learned from a Language Teacher
Christopher A. Bradley, Siebold University of Nagaski, Japan
25 The Spiritual Ecology of Second Language Pedagogy
David I. Smith, Calvin College, US
26 Truth in Teaching English
Richard E. Robison, Azusa Pacific Universit, US
Responses
27 Imperatives, Dilemmas, and Conundrums in Spiritual Dimensions of ELT
H. Douglas Brown, San Francisco State University, US
28 Additive Perspective on Religion or Growing Hearts with Wisdom
Ahmar Mahboob, University of Sydney, Australia
29 A Question of Priorities
Andy Curtis, Chinese University of Hong Kong, SAR, China
Discussion Questions
Conclusion
30 Christian and Critical Language Educators in Dialogue: Imagining
Possibilities
Mary Shepard Wong, Azusa Pacific University, US &
Suresh Canagarajah, Pennsylvania State University, US
Afterword
The Dilemma
Earl Stevick
with Carolyn Kristjánsson, Trinity Western University, Canada