Moving beyond Technicism in English-Language Teacher Education: A Case Study from Turkey

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Highlighting the threats that an overreliance on technology poses for teacher creativity, student voice, and the well-being of democracy, Moving beyond Technicism in English-Language Teacher Education advocates a critical approach to education. Using the authors own personal experiences, this book offers a critical analysis of the technicist English-language teacher education programs introduced by Turkeys Council of Higher Education in the neoliberal period. Beginning with the implementation of critical education in the early years of the Republic of Turkey, the book documents how teacher education practices in Turkey evolved from liberal to mechanic with the influence of the Cold War. By shedding light on the transformative actions of a teacher in eastern Turkey, the book explores the impact of critical teacher education on preservice and in-service teachers perceptions and practice. Highlighting the ethical responsibilities of educators, the book calls for a critical, democratic, and humanizing approach to teacher preparation.

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I strongly recommend this book to teachers who teach English as a second language as well as other subject teachers interested in transformative teaching and anyone who wants to know about Turkish Educational system. -- Rfat Okabol, Boazii University
In this thought-provocative work, Yasemin Tezgiden Cakcak skillfully destabilizes our inherent assumptions about the link between English language teaching and teacher education by resituating a complex myriad of issues in a broader sociopolitical contextA transformative intellectual experience for those who seek alternatives to blind practices propagated by neoliberal policies, and forge counter-hegemonic spaces and pathways towards a critical English language teaching and teacher education. -- Ali Fuad Selvi, Middle East Technical University, Northern Cyprus Campus

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Yasemin Tezgiden-Cakcak is a scholar at the Foreign Language Education Department of Turkeys Middle Eastern Technical University. She has worked as a translator, public school teacher, lecturer and teacher educator.