Format:
1 online resource (259 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781847693051
Series Statement:
Critical Language and Literacy Studies
Content:
This book draws on the narratives of white women as English language teachers in the neocolonial world of international development. It explores the paradoxes of language as aid, and questions the mythical power of English to deliver on the promises of a brighter future for the developing world.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction: This is Where it Crashed and Burned -- Part 1: Understanding English Language Teaching in Development -- 1 Models of Development and English Language Teaching -- Models of International Development -- Gender and Development -- Models of English as an International Language -- 2 Time and Space in English Language Teaching, Gender and Development -- Modernity and the Control of Time and Space -- Postcolonial Conceptions of Time and Space -- Postmodernity, Postmodernism and Proliferation of Space and Time -- Feminist Conceptions of Time and Space -- 3 Spatial Context: East Timor, Indonesia and Australia -- Colonial History in East Timor and Indonesia -- Linguistic Flows in Indonesia and East Timor -- Australia: Between History and Geography -- International Aid in Transitional East Timor -- Part 2: Teachers' Narrative Accounts -- 4 Being There: Teachers' Spatial Engagements with Development Contexts -- The Temporality and Spatiality of Development -- Aliens in Indonesia: Whiteness and Gender -- Out of Place in East Timor: Colonialism Revisited -- Gendered Space in East Timor -- Relocating a Sense of Place and Self -- 5 It's a Bubble: English Language Teaching Practices in Development -- Fay's Story -- Constructions of Time and Space in Classroom and Context -- Classroom Contexts in Indonesia and East Timor -- The Spatialising Power of English Language -- Spatial Patterns of English Language Teaching -- Teaching and Spatiality in Development -- 6 Doing the Washing Up: Teaching and Gender in Development -- The Female Teacher, Gender and Culture -- Teacher Authority and Gender Equality -- Constrained Authority and Student Consent -- Negotiating Authority and Difference -- Gender as Spatial Pedagogy -- 7 Conclusion: Spatial Practices in the Contact Zone.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781847693044
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781847693044
Language:
English
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