ELT, gender and international development [[electronic resource] ] : myths of progress in a neocolonial world / / Roslyn Appleby

• Autore: Appleby Roslyn
• Pubblicazione: Bristol ; ; Buffalo, : Multilingual Matters, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xv, 243 p. ) : ill., map
• Disciplina: 428/.0071
• Soggetto topico: English language - Study and teaching - Foreign countries; English language - Study and teaching - Foreign speakers; Women teachers
• Soggetto non controllato: Development studies; ELT classrooms; ELT; English language teaching; Gender relations; Gender studies; International development; Neocolonialism; Postcolonial English language teaching; Teacher narratives
• Note generali: Formerly CIP.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-239) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction: This is Where it Crashed and Burned -- Chapter 1. Models of Development and English Language Teaching -- Chapter 2. Time and Space in English Language Teaching, Gender and Development -- Chapter 3. Spatial Context: East Timor, Indonesia and Australia -- Chapter 4. Being There: Teachers’ Spatial Engagements with Development Contexts -- Chapter 5. It’s a Bubble: English Language Teaching Practices in Development -- Chapter 6. Doing the Washing Up: Teaching and Gender in Development -- Chapter 7. Conclusion: Spatial Practices in the Contact Zone -- Appendix A. Teachers and Projects -- Appendix B. Transcription Codes -- References -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 teachers, and situates classroom practices within a broad reading of the West and the Rest. What happens when white Western men and women come in to rebuild former colonies in Asia? How do English language lessons translate, or disintegrate, in a radically different world? How is English teaching linked to ideas of progress? This book presents the paradoxes of language aid in the twenty-first century in a way that will challenge your views of English and its power to improve the lives of people in the developing world.
• Titolo autorizzato: ELT, gender and international development
• ISBN: 1-283-14757-2; 1-84769-305-9; 1-84769-303-2; 1-84769-482-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910791600603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Critical language and literacy studies.