Antisocial Language Teaching

English and the Pervasive Pathology of Whiteness

JPB Gerald (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2022
Multilingual Matters (Verlag)
978-1-80041-326-9 (ISBN)

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This book examines major issues with the ideologies and institutions behind the discipline of ELT and diagnoses the industry as in dire need of treatment, with the solution being a full decentering of whiteness. A vision for a more just version of ELT is offered as an alternative to the harm caused by its present-day incarnation.

The centering of whiteness in English Language Teaching (ELT) renders the industry callous, corrupt and cruel; or, antisocial. Using the diagnostic criteria for Antisocial Personality Disorder as a rhetorical device, this book examines major issues with the ideologies and institutions behind the discipline of ELT and diagnoses the industry as in dire need of treatment, with the solution being a full decentering of whiteness. A vision for a more just version of ELT is offered as an alternative to the harm caused by its present-day incarnation. With a unique linkage of discourse on whiteness, language and ability, this book will be necessary reading for students, academics and administrators involved in ELT around the world.

JPB Gerald is an adult educator and theorist, and a 2022 graduate of the EdD program in Instructional Leadership from CUNY – Hunter College, USA. Through his writing, teaching, podcast and his public scholarship overall, he seeks justice for the racially, linguistically and neurologically minoritized.

Prologue

Introduction

Part One: Disorder

The Great Pyramid Scheme

Justified

A Dark Projection

Dis/abling Blackness

Ability, Intelligence and Language

Bad at English

Language Teaching as an Instrument of Pathologization

Part Two: Symptoms

Criterion 1

Criterion 2

Criterion 3

Criterion 4

Criterion 5

Criterion 6

Criterion 7

Part Three: Treatment...?

The Ezel Project

Prosocial Language Teaching

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

References

Erscheinungsdatum	23.09.2022
Reihe/Serie	New Perspectives on Language and Education
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	300 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80041-326-2 / 1800413262
ISBN-13	978-1-80041-326-9 / 9781800413269
Zustand	Neuware