Barbara M. Birch

The English Language Teacher in Global Civil Society (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How can English language teachers contribute to peace locally and globally? English language teachers and learners are located in the global civil society - an international network of civil organizations and NGOs related to human rights, the environment, and sustainable peace. English, with its special role as an international language, is a major tool for communication within this network. On the local level, many teachers are interested in promoting reconciliation and sustainable peace, but often do not know how to do so. This book provides information, analysis, and techniques to help teachers around the world take action toward this goal. Balancing, in a readable and accessible way, the global and the local, core and periphery, cultural diffusion and resistance, theory and practice, pessimism and optimism, outsider and insider perspectives, the expert role and the apprentice role, and prescriptive and elicitive methods, it offers an alternative to literature about critical applied linguistics, globalization, and peace education that is simply too complex and wordy to spread easily from theoretician to the classroom teacher. The English Teacher in Global Civil Society:synthesizes threads from many fields and topics into a coherent and empowering argument for the activist role English language teachers can take to promote social changedraws on humanistic education, peace education, cross-cultural understanding, problem-posing, cooperative learning, and critical thinking methodologies to help English language teachers learn how to teach conflict resolution skills in their classrooms covers issues in critical applied linguistics, approaches and methodologies in ESL/EFL, global and local curricular issues, and specific skill areas such reading, writing, and speakingsuggests a new goal for English language teachers: global citizenship.This engaging, informative, provocative, and highly readable book is a welcome resource for English language teacher trainers, pre-service teachers, practicing classroom teachers, and Peace Corps workers around the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135847364
• Artikelnr.: 38447529

Autorenporträt

Barbara M. Birch is Professor and Chair of the Department of Modern and

Classical Languages and Literatures at California State University, Fresno. She has

taught EFL in Spain, Ecuador, and Pakistan, conducted inservice workshops for

Peace Corps volunteers in Macedonia, and worked with English teacher trainers

in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part I. The English Language Teacher in Global Civil Society
Chapter 1. The Big Picture
Chapter 2. Global Civil Society
Chapter 3. Global Civic Culture
Chapter 4. Global Citizens
Part II. The English Language Teacher in Local Civil Society
Chapter 5. Sustainable Peace
Chapter 6. Local Uncivil Societies
Chapter 7. Pro-social Capitalists
Chapter 8. Education for Global Citizenship
Part III. The English Language Teacher and Pedagogies of Transition
Chapter 9. Conflict Transformation
Chapter 10. Tolerance
Chapter 11. Remembrance
Chapter 12. Reconciliation
Chapter 13. Forgiveness