Social Justice, Decoloniality, and Southern Epistemologies Within Language Education: Theories, Knowledges, and Practices on Tesol from Brazil

ISBN-13: 9781032365008 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 256 str.

Tavares, Vander

Opis

With a strong focus on decoloniality and social justice, this volume brings together critical theories, concepts, and practices on TESOL from multiple Brazilian perspectives.

Spis treści

Introduction Part I: Social Justice through TESOL for and from the South 1. Digging up our Stones of Shame: English Language Education and Memories of Brazil’s Violent Past  2. Developing Critical Awareness of Indigenous Languages and Cultures of Brazil in EFL Education: Children’s Literature as an Entryway  Part II: Decolonizing Constructions of TESOL Teacher Education and Educators 3. Reconstructing Our Teacher Selves through Decoloniality and Southern Epistemologies  4. Teacher Education Practices within Pibid: De/Re/Constructing What It Means to Be an English Educator  Part III: Southern-Based Knowledges and Pedagogies 5. Critical Tasks in Brazil: Locally Produced Epistemologies and Praxis  6. Affect and English Language Learning in the Global South: Literature-based Teaching Plans created by Brazilian Teachers  Part IV: (Re)Imagining TESOL through Brazilian Perspectives 7. Thinking ELT Otherwise: Lessons from Decoloniality  8. A Century of Paulo Freire: Problem-Solving Education, Conscientização, Dialogue, and TESL from a Freirean Perspective  Part V: Confronting the Hegemony of the English Language in Research and Teaching 9. Realigning Research Publication Practices in the South: Going Beyond the "Must Publish in English" Controversy  10. Critical Perspectives of Brazilian Teachers on English as a Lingua Franca: Rethinking Teaching through Critical Pedagogy  11. African and Afro-Brazilian Cultural Themes as Possible Paths Towards Decolonizing English as a Foreign Language Education

O autorze

Vander Tavares is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Education, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway.