Transformation and Empowerment Through Education: Reconstructing Our Relationship with Education

ISBN-13: 9780367583422 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 276 str.

Raqib Chowdhury

Opis

Transformation and Empowerment through Education challenges the normalisation of Western discourses as the optimal choice for empowering education. The book reconstructs our relationship with education and employs contemporary theories in order to understand some of the most persistent phenomena in contemporary education and its role in

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List of Contributors

Chapter One: Introduction: Transformation through education in contemporary times: A Freirean reconsideration Raqib Chowdhury

Section One: Education, Pedagogy and Access

Chapter Two: Negotiating identities: Classroom picturebook discussions with diverse learners Sue Wilson and Jennifer Rennie

Chapter Three: EFL learners’ roles in a meditational process of written corrective feedback: Writing accuracy and responses Trang Thi Doan Dang

Chapter Four: Empowerment and knowledge transformation through critical reading and thinking: A case study of Iranian university students H. Shokouhi and M. Latifi

Chapter Five: Reweaving the ‘Self’ through a dialogic approach to ESP pedagogy in Iran: Accounts of ontological transformations Mahtab Janfada

Chapter Six: Pedagogical and professional perspectives on developing graduates’ employability: The case of university translation programs in Vietnam Thu T.Q. Do

Section Two: Education, Pedagogy and Learning

Chapter Seven: Tensions and resistance during collaborative efforts for change: Facilitating the implementation of task-based pedagogy in Iran Elahe Shakhsi Dastgahian, Marianne Turner and Janet Scull

Chapter Eight: Religious orientation and English language achievement in secondary education: A correlational study in an Iranian context Beheshteh Shakhsi Dastgahian and Ebrahim Khodadady

Chapter Nine: Towards a pedagogy to help postgraduate students avoid plagiarism in English academic writing in the EFL context Thi Van Lam Nguyen

Chapter Ten: Redefining the role of Asian literacy in Western-based undergraduate curricula across disciplines: A case of Australian universities Caterina Ho

Section Three: Education, Pedagogy and Power

Chapter Eleven: From the middle out: Empowering transformational leadership capability of middle-level school leaders Vanessa Fernandes

Chapter Twelve: Putting the US higher education card on building local capacity: Saudi Arabia as a national case Osman Barnawi

Chapter Thirteen: The teacher as a colony: Cambodian cases of fabrication and self-empowerment Takayo Ogisu and Eisuke Saito

Chapter Fourteen: Conclusion

Revisiting transformation and empowerment through education: Generating themes Elahe Shakhsi Dastgahian

O autorze

Raqib Chowdhury is a Lecturer in TESOL/ESL in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Australia.