Critical Pedagogies and Language Learning / edited by Bonny Norton and Kelleen Toohey. - 1st ed. - New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004. - xiii, 362 p. : cov. ill. ; 24 cm. - Cambridge Applied Linguistics .

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Chapter 1: Critical pedagogies and language learning: an introduction / Bonny Norton and Kelleen Toohey I. Reconceptualizing Second Language Education Chapter 2: Two takes on the critical / Allan Luke Chapter 3: Critical multiculturalism and second language education / Ryuko Kubota Chapter 4: Gender and sexuality in foreign and second language education: critical and feminist approaches / Aneta Pavlenko Chapter 5: Assessment in multicultural societies: applying democratic principles and practices to language testing / Elana Shohamy II. Challenging Identities Chapter 6: Representation, rights, and resources: multimodal pedagogies in the language and literacy classroom / Pippa Stein Chapter 7: Subversive identities, pedagogical safe houses, and critical learning / Suresh Canagarajah Chapter 8: "Why does this feel empowering?": Thesis writing, concordancing, and the corporatizing university / Sue Starfield Chapter 9: Modals and memories: a grammar lesson on the Quebec referendum on sovereignty / Brian Morgan III. Researching Critical Practices Chapter 10: The logic of nonstandard teaching: a course in Cape Verdean language, culture, and history / Ines Brito, Ambrizeth Lima, and Elsa Auerbach Chapter 11: Comic book culture and second language learners / Bonny Norton and Karen Vanderheyden Chapter 12: Classroom interaction, gender, and foreign language learning / Jane Sunderland Chapter 13: Living with inelegance in qualitative research on task-based learning / Constant Leung, Roxy Harris, and Ben Rampton IV. Educating Teachers for Change Chapter 14: Introducing a critical pedagogical curriculum: a feminist reflexive account / Angel M.Y. Lin Chapter 15: Negotiating expertise in an action research community / Kelleen Toohey and Bonnie Waterstone Chapter 16: Performed ethnography for critical language teacher education / Tara Goldstein Chapter 17: Critical moments in a TESOL practicum / Alastair Pennycook

"Critical pedagogies are instructional approaches and materials that are aimed at transforming existing social relations in the interest of greater equity in schools and communities. Interest in this area is rapidly gaining momentum. This important new volume applies the critical pedagogical approach to the area of language learning, and in so doing, it addresses such topics as critical multiculturalism, gender and language learning, and popular culture. Committed to language education that contributes to social justice - and the political, economic, and sociocultural changes such justice requires - the contributors explore the meaning of creating equitable and critical instructional practices, exploring diverse representations of knowledge; they also make recommendations for further research in this area, and for critical testing practices and teacher education. Graduate students and researchers in TESOL, applied linguistics, and education will find this volume a thought-provoking and comprehensive presentation of theory and practice in this important new area of scholarship." (Book Cover)

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