This edited book expands the current scholarship on teaching world languages for social justice and equity in K-12 and postsecondary contexts in the US. Over the past decade, demand has been growing for a more critical approach to teaching languages and cultures: in response, this volume brings together a group of scholars whose work bridges the fields of world language education and critical approaches to education. Within the current US context, the chapters address the following key questions: (1) How are pre-service or in-service world language teachers/professors embedding issues, understandings, or content related to social justice, human rights, access, critical pedagogy and equity into their teaching and curriculum? (2) How are teacher educators preparing language teachers to teach for social justice, human rights, access and equity?
Beth Wassell is Professor in the Department of Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Education, Rowan University, USA. Her research interests include language teaching and learning, teacher education, critical and social justice approaches, and qualitative research.
Cassandra Glynn is Associate Professor in the Department of Education, Concordia College, USA. She is the author (with Pamela Wesely and Beth Wassell) of Words and Actions: Teaching World Languages Through a Lens of Social Justice (2018, ACTFL).
Title: Transforming World Language Teaching and Teacher Education for Equity and Justice: Pushing Boundaries in US Contexts: 103 (New Perspectives on Language and Education)
Author: Cassandra Glynn,Beth Wassell
ISBN: 9781788926515
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Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Publication Date: 2022-04-29
Number of Pages: 224
Weight: 0.4900 kg
This book is a must-read for world language teachers, administrators, teacher educators, and researchers. Each chapter is a powerhouse doing invaluable work calling out the need for critical reflection and urgent change in our field while also calling in collaborators to be agents of purposeful, positive impact and showing them concrete steps to take meaningful action for equity and social justice within their immediate spheres of influence and beyond. * Uju Anya, Carnegie Mellon University, USA *
The struggle to transform our world for a more just and equitable future requires imagination and expertise. World language teachers can play an important role in ensuring that our future stays multilingual. This book offers the tools and concrete examples that are needed for preparing and sustaining world and heritage language teachers for this challenge. * Jenna Cushing-Leubner, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA *
This is a challenging book. It challenges teachers and teacher educators to re-think their traditions and their assumptions about their purposes and identities as 'language teachers'. It helps us all not just to 'think again' but also to move forward in reflection and practice. It is a book anchored in world language teaching in the USA, but has a much wider relevance for readers in other continents and countries. * Michael Byram, University of Durham, UK; Sofia University St Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria *