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ELT, gender and international development : myths of progress in a neocolonial world /
For believers in the power of English, language as aid can deliver the promise of a brighter future; but in a neocolonial world of international development, a gulf exists between belief and reality. Rich with echoes of an earlier colonial era, this book draws on the candid narratives of white women...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol ; Buffalo :
Multilingual Matters,
©2010.
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| Colección: | Critical language and literacy studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 AustraliaColonial 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 DevelopmentFay'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 ZoneTeachers' Journeys in Development; Implications for English Language Teaching and Gender: Beyond Development; Appendix A; Appendix B; References; Index.