Teaching World Languages for Social Justice: A Sourcebook of Principles and Practices

by Terry A. Osborn

Overview

Teaching World Languages for Social Justice: A Sourcebook of Principles and Practices offers principles based on theory, and innovative concepts, approaches, and practices illustrated through concrete examples, for promoting social justice and developing a critical praxis in foreign language classrooms in the U.S. and in wider world language communities. For educators seeking to translate these ideals into classroom practice in an environment dominated by the current standards movement and accountability measures, the critical insights on language education offered in this text will be widely welcomed.

The text is designed as a sourcebook for translating theory into practice. Each chapter includes the theoretical base, guidelines for practice, discussion of the relationship to existing practices in the world language classroom, suggestions for activity development (which can be integrated into a professional portfolio), illustrative examples, questions for reflection, and additional suggested readings.

Teaching World Languages for Social Justice is a primary or supplementary text for second and foreign language teaching methods courses and is equally appropriate for graduate courses in language education or educational studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135609856
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/15/2006
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	206
File size:	988 KB

About the Author

Osborn, Terry A.

Table of Contents

Contents: Preface.Leaving the Marketplace. Dialogical Classrooms: Foundations of a New Foundation. Teacher Preparation as the Basis for Praxis. The Politics of Grammar and Vocabulary. Canon Fire: Why Literature Still Has Its Place. Critical Disclosure and Visual Analysis as Pedagogy. Crossing the Lines: Interdisciplinary Possibilities. A Small Virtual World After All: Communities in Cyberspace. Reconcile! Toward a Unified Discipline. Appendix:Language Spoken at Home for the United States: 2000.

Editorial Reviews

"Osborn’s work represents a wonderful addition to the library of any critical pedagogue-language educators and teacher educators...this book is also an essential read for any undergraduate and graduate teacher preparation program endeavoring to provide beginning teachers as well as more experienced ones with opportunities to critically explore issues and challenges pertinent to the FL teaching world." — Lauren Cammarata, University of Georgia

"I am impressed by Terry Osborn's upfront critical analysis of the persistent problems surrounding world language education in U.S. contexts....and by the author's innovative and courageous attempts to put the goals of achieving social justice, human spirit, human rights, and dignity back into the discussion of language education and pedagogy and to suggest concrete educational and pedagogical plans that teachers can draw on in their own ways to realize these goals in their own classrooms....This book will have a paradigm-shifting significance."
—Angel M.Y. Lin
City University of Hong Kong

"By providing teachers and teacher educators with critical perspectives applied to concrete situations, this volume guides teachers to walk the walk, so to speak, in the discourse of critical pedagogy, which all too often falls into abstract arguments that are removed from everyday practice. There are plenty of examples that provide contexts for applying theory to practice."
—Ryuko Kubota
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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