Short description:

Putting Critical Language Pedagogy into Practice explores the practice of language teaching through the lens of critical pedagogy, reflexivity, and the importance of reflexivity for teacher development. It also shows how these reflexive practices can contribute to more inclusivity and decolonization of the curriculum.

Long description:

Putting Critical Language Pedagogy into Practice explores the practice of language teaching through the lens of critical pedagogy, reflexivity, and the importance of reflexivity for teacher development. It also shows how these reflexive practices can contribute to more inclusivity and decolonization of the curriculum.

A range of experts argue persuasively for epistemological reflexivity in practice and demonstrate how to implement this critical thinking into daily instructional practice. Each chapter is structured around three themes in order to help readers connect challenging theoretical ideas into day to day teaching practice: Reflection ? the author?s story and issue of concern; Epistemic Reflexivity ? personal epistemologies reflecting on the social conditions influencing the theory underpinning that author?s practices; Resolved action ? how the epistemic reflexivity leads to purposeful decision-making enacted in classroom contexts.

Original, thoughtful and challenging, this text is fascinating and instructional reading for language education advanced students, researchers and practitioners.

The idea for this book emerged during the Fulbright scholarship at Texas Woman?s University out of the mutual research interests of the editors.

Table of Contents:

List of Contributors

Foreword                                                                                                                              

Bogusława Dorota Gołębniak                                                                                               

Introduction to the book                                                                                                     

Barbara Muszyńska and Holly Hansen-Thomas

Chapter 1. Moving Beyond Reflection - Towards Epistemic Reflexivity in Language Education                                                                                                        

Barbara Muszyńska

Chapter 2. Enacting Critical Consciousness to Name and Act on My Monolingual Ideologies:

An Example from a Scholar?s Teaching and Research                                                         

Mary Amanda Stewart

Chapter 3. Don?t Just Talk About It, Be About It: Supporting Critical Pedagogy in

Teacher Education                                                                                                                 

Aimée Myers and Gage Jeter

Chapter 4. Addressing Embodied Assumptions through a Self-Coaching Model              

Elise Brittan

Chapter 5. Providing Spaces for Critical Reflections                                                          

Mariannella  Nú?ez

Chapter 6. Teaching through Conceptual Art: seeking convergence in diversity               

Christine Calfoglou and Spiros Polymeris

Chapter 7. Critical Pedagogy through Artistic Citizenship: Beyond Traditional Means    

Victor Lozada

Chapter 8. Critical Scholarship of Hope: Language Teacher Education and Schools in Poland

Aleksandra Ita Olszewska

Call to Action                                                                                                           

Holly Hansen-Thomas and Barbara Muszyńska

Index