Language Teacher Education Beyond Borders: Multilingualism, Transculturalism, and Critical Approaches
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Language Teacher Education Beyond Borders: Multilingualism, Transculturalism, and Critical Approaches
By (Author) Professor Fernando Zolin Vesz
Edited by Dr Daro Luis Banegas
Edited by Professor Luciana C. de Oliveira
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Bloomsbury Academic
19th September 2024
United Kingdom
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Sociolinguistics
Social pedagogy
Educational strategies and policy
Bilingualism and multilingualism
418.0071
Physical Properties
Hardback
200
Width 156mm, Height 234mm
Description
This volume looks at the preparation of future critical language teachers in the face of an increasingly multilingual and transcultural contemporary world. This is seen through the lens of the collapse of Nation-State borders that crumble in the face of migration and the intense flow of languages that comes with it. It brings together international research that problematizes, theorizes, re-positions and re-conceptualizes myriad structural, systemic, ideological, political and pedagogical issues that intersect with the possibilities and impossibilities of the development of language teachers agency. The volume examines the needs of linguistically diverse student populations and considers the socio-cultural and socio-political barriers that interfere with the exercise of teacher agency for social justice in language classrooms. It offers a theoretical and empirical overview of how language teacher education has addressed multilingualism and transculturalism in critical approaches in many complex countries in their diversity and/or postcolonial history, including Brazil, Qazaqstan, Scotland, and Thailand.
Author Bio
Fernando Zolin Vesz is Assistant Professor at the Federal University of Mato Grosso, Brazil. He has published papers in collective volumes, such as The Politics of English Second Language Writing Assessment in Global Contexts. Dario Luis Banegas is Lecturer in Language Education at the Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He has co-edited volumes on initial language teacher education and gender and sexuality diversity in English language education. Luciana C. de Oliveira is Associate Dean in the School of Education and a Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Virginia Commonwealth University, USA. She has authored or edited 28 books and has over 200 publications in various outlets.
