Religious Faith and Teacher Knowledge in English Language Teaching - Couverture rigide

Baurain, Bradley

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1443882623 ISBN 13 : 9781443882620

Editeur : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

The field of TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) stands at an active crossroads – issues of language, culture, learning, identity, morality, and spirituality mix daily in classrooms around the world. What roles might teachers’ personal religious beliefs play in their professional activities and contexts? Until recently, such questions had been largely excluded from academic conversations in TESOL. Yet the qualitative research at the core of this book, framed and presented within a teacher knowledge paradigm, demonstrates that personal faith and professional identities and practices can, and do, interact and interrelate in ways that are both meaningful and problematic. This study’s Christian TESOL teacher participants, working overseas in Southeast Asia, perceived, explained, and interpreted a variety of such connections within their lived experience. As a result, the beliefs-practices nexus deserves to be further theorized, researched, and discussed. Religious beliefs and human spirituality, as foundational and enduring aspects of human thought and culture, and thus of teaching and learning, deserve a place at the TESOL table.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Now at Moody Theological Seminary and Graduate School in Chicago, Bradley Baurain has taught for more than 20 years in the United States, Canada, China, and Vietnam. He has co-edited two books and published articles in journals including ELT Journal, TESOL Journal, and the Journal of Language, Identity, and Education. His scholarly interests also include teacher development, narrative inquiry, and literature in language education.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1443882623
• ISBN 13: 9781443882620
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 190
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible