What Is Critical in Language Studies (eBook, PDF)

Disclosing Social Inequalities and Injustice
Redaktion: Maria de Barros, Solange; M. de Jesus, Dánie

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume examines the notion of criticality in language studies. Drawing on the work of the Frankfurt School - Adorno and Horkheimer, Marcuse, Habermas, among others - the essays in the volume examines a variety of linguistic contexts: from gender activism to web journalism, from the classroom to the open streets.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000191264
• Artikelnr.: 59891475

Autorenporträt

Solange Maria de Barros is a professor of the graduate programme in language studies at Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT), Brazil. She works on critical teacher education, critical discourse analysis, and critical realism. She has completed her post-doctorate at the Institute of Education - IOE/University of London (2012-2013); PhD in applied linguistics and language studies at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo - PUC/SP (2005); and doctoral studies at the University of Lancaster (England), under the supervision of Norman Fairclough (2002-2003). Her recent publications include Emancipatory Pedagogical Practice: The Reflective Teacher in the Process of Change (2008); Critical Education: Desires and Possibilities (2010); Critical Realism and Human Emancipation: Ontological and Epistemological Contributions to Critical Discourse Studies (2015); and Transgression as Practice of Resistance: A Critical View about Queer Studies and Socioeducation (coedited with Marcio E. Beltrão, 2019). Dánie M. de Jesus is an associate professor at Federal University of Mato Grosso, Brazil. He has experience in applied linguistics and gender studies, mainly in discourse in digital context, teacher training, LGBTQI diversities, and critical literacy and inclusion. He completed his post-doctorate at the University of Illinois, USA (2014); doctorate studies at the University of Liverpool, England; and PhD in applied linguistics and language studies at Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (2007). His recent publications include Multiletracies and Critical Literacy: Other Senses for the Language Classroom (coauthored with Divanize Carbonieri, 2016); Looks at Digital Technologies: Languages, Teaching, Training and Teaching Practice (coauthored with Ruberval Franco Maciel, 2015); and Critical Perspectives in Language Teaching: New Directions for School (coedited with Fernando Zolin-Vesz and Divanize Carbonieri, 2017).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction PART I Critical emancipatory research 1 Critical emancipatory research: a tool for social transformation PART II Inclusive education: a critical perspective 2 Gender, discourse, and language teaching: critical questions and resistance 3 Teachers' disempowerment and inclusive education: a critical realist view 4 Towards critical theories and education: an easy-to-read introduction 5 Critical ethnography and dialogic reflection in student-led language research PART III Critical discourse studies 6 What does 'critical' mean in Latin America? An overview of critical discourse studies in our region 7 Critical transversality in multimodal and multimedia discourse studies 8 Human rights for whom? Public and spatial management of urban poverty: a critique 9 About the discourse of the necessity of military intervention in Brazil for the 'restoration of order in the country': analytical notes 10 The virtue of being obstructive: critique and the signifying machinery