Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-265) and index.

Introduction ; Getting Started-Materials and curriculum content ; Components of critical language pedagogy ; Radical or critical pedagogy; beginnings and elements ; Relevant understandings of language and learning ; Developing domains of radical language pedagogy ; Administration and related matters ; Concerns and outcomes: what is to be done? ; Imagination and targets.

Uniquely bridging theory and practice, this text introduces and overviews the various domains associated with the term critical pedagogy in the field of TESOL/ELT. Critical pedagogy addresses concepts, values, curriculum, instructional and associated practices involved in language teaching for social justice. Bringing critical pedagogy to classroom practitioners in a practical and comprehensible way, the text is designed to help teachers get started on critically grounded work in their own teaching. Features • Textbook extracts offer direct and quick illustration of what this perspective might look like in practice • Coverage of feminist and anti-racist pedagogies; sexual identity, oppression and pedagogy; peace and environmental education; and critical English as a foreign language-and their implications for second-language teaching • Historical background • Theoretical background on language and learning • Consideration of applicability of critical/radical educational concepts and traditions to non-Western cultural contexts • A focus on issues of compromise and resistance

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