Christian and Critical English Language Educators in Dialogue : Pedagogical and Ethical Dilemmas

by Wong, Mary Shepard; Canagarajah, Suresh

• ISBN13: 9780203877807
• ISBN10: 0203877802
• Copyright: 2009-05-07
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

This volume critically examines how English language teaching professionals wrestle with ideological, pedagogical, and spiritual dilemmas as they seek to understand the place of faith in education.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

ContributorsÆ Spiritual Identification Statements

Abbreviations

Introduction

New Possibilities for the Spiritual and the Critical in Pedagogy

Setting the Tone: Dialogue and Discourse

Nonjudgmental Steps on a Road to Understanding

Is Dialogue Possible? Challenges to Evangelicals and Non-Evangelicals in English Language Teaching

First the Log in Your Own Eye: Missionaries and their Critics

A Preliminary Survey of Christian English Language Teachers in Countries that Restrict Missionary Activity

Responses

Is Dialogue Possible? Anti-Intellectualism, Relativism, Politics and Linguistic Ideologies

Dialogue and Discourse

Questioning Religious "Ideals" and Intentionalities: Staving off Religious Arrogance and Bigotry in ELT

Can We Talk? Finding a Platform for Dialogue among Values-based Professionals in Post-Positivist Education

Discussion Questions

Ideological and Political Dilemmas

Deconstructing/Reconstructing the Missionary English Teacher Identity

English and Education in Anglophone Africa: Historical and Current Realities

Confronting the Empire: Language Teachers as Charitable Guests

Christian English TeacherÆs Presence: Reflecting Constantine or Christ?

Responses

A Former "Missionary Kid" Responds

Caught between Poststructuralist Relativism and Materialism or Liberal and Critical Multiculturalism?

The English Language and the Word of God

Discussion Questions

Pedagogical And Professional Dilemmas

The Courage to Teach as a Non-Native teacher: The Confession of a Christian Teacher

English Teachers, Language Learning, and the Issue of Power

Classroom Guidelines for Teachers with Convictions

Responses

The Pedagogical Dilemmas of Faith in ELT: A Dialogic Response

Power and Change in ELT: Thoughts from a Fellow Traveler

Reconsidering Roadside Assistance: The Problem with Christian Approaches to Teaching the English Language

Discussion Questions

Spiritual And Ethical Dilemmas

Spiritual Dimensions in Language Teaching: A Personal Reflection

Spiritual Lessons Learned from a Language Teacher

The Spiritual Ecology of Second Language Pedagogy

Truth in Teaching English

Responses

Imperatives, Dilemmas, and Conundrums in Spiritual Dimensions of ELT

Additive Perspective on Religion or Growing Hearts with Wisdom

A Question of Priorities

Discussion Questions

Conclusion

Christian and Critical Language Educators in Dialogue: Imagining Possibilities

Afterword

The Dilemma

Earl Stevick with Carolyn Kristjánsson, Trinity Western University, Canada

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