ELT, Gender and International Development: Myths of Progress in a Neocolonial World - Couverture rigide

Appleby, Roslyn

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1847693040 ISBN 13 : 9781847693044

Editeur : Multilingual Matters, 2010

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

For believers in the power of English, language as aid can deliver the promise of a brighter future; but in a neocolonial world of international development, a gulf exists between belief and reality. Rich with echoes of an earlier colonial era, this book draws on the candid narratives of white women teachers, and situates classroom practices within a broad reading of the West and the Rest. What happens when white Western men and women come in to rebuild former colonies in Asia? How do English language lessons translate, or disintegrate, in a radically different world? How is English teaching linked to ideas of progress? This book presents the paradoxes of language aid in the twenty-first century in a way that will challenge your views of English and its power to improve the lives of people in the developing world.

Revue de presse :

The book's focus on gender relations in development contexts, its superb deconstruction of aid agencies in situ, the gendered space of ELT classrooms and the voices of ELT teachers working in development contexts is unique. This book should be read not only by sociolinguists, sociologists, critical theorists and theorists of development working in the academy but also NGOs and aid agencies working in post-trauma societies. There is much to be learned here. --Naz Rassool, The University of Reading, UK

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Multilingual Matters
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1847693040
• ISBN 13: 9781847693044
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 264