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Informationen zum Autor Chantal Crozet is a Language Teacher-Researcher in French Studies and Intercultural Communication in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University, Australia. Her research interests focus on politics, ethics and knowledge of Self in language and intercultural studies. Adriana Díaz is a Language Teacher-Researcher in Spanish and Latin American Studies at the School of Languages and Cultures, University of Queensland, Australia. Her research centres on critical intercultural language learning and how insights from decolonial critique can help us un/re-learn the ways in which we engage with languages education. Zusammenfassung Bringing together a range of perspectives from tertiary language and culture teachers and researchers, this volume highlights the need for greater critical engagement with the question of language teacher identity, agency and responsibility in light of an ever changing global socio-political and cultural landscape. Inhaltsverzeichnis TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF FIGURES * LIST OF ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS * ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS * PREFACE * References * Chapter 1 – Introduction * 1.1 Setting the scene: Australia, the monolingual Babel * 1.2 Methodological Considerations * 1.2.1 Methodological framework: Critical qualitative inquiry * 1.2.2 Participants – a.k.a. our peers and our(multiple)selves * 1.2.3 Pen portraits * 1.2.4 (Re)framing of semi-structured interviews * 1.2.5 Narrative Inquiry * 1.3 Engagement with the data through narrative knowledging * 1.4 Delimiting emerging knowledg-ing (in lieu of limitations ) * 1.5 Overview of the book * References * Chapter 2 – Silent voices and unseized spaces * 2.1 Introduction * 2.2 Mise en scène : Setting the stage, casting the actors * 2.2.1 Language and culture education * 2.2.2 Language Teaching Theorists (LTTs) * 2.2.3 Language Teachers (LTs) – The practitioners * 2.2.4 ULTRs: Silent voices and unseized spaces * 2.3 Do LTTs, LTs and ULTRs relate and if so, how? * 2.3.1 LTTs and LTs * 2.3.2 ULTRs and LTTs * 2.3.3 ULTRs and LTs * 2.4 ULTRs in the Australian higher education context * 2.5 Concluding remarks * References * Chapter 3 – ULTRs’ professional identity and agency * 3.1 Introduction: Theoretical framings and orientations * 3.2 Moving beyond ‘identity’ towards ‘identity work’ * 3.2.1 A political approach to LTI as an analytical framework * 3.2.2 The substance of LTI in ULTRs * 3.2.3 The authority sources of ULTRs * 3.2.4 The self-practices of ULTRs * 3.2.5 The telos of ULTRs * 3.3 Agency * 3.4.1 Entanglement between identity and agency * 3.4.2 Individual agency and structure * Conclusion * References * Chapter 4 – Goals, Politics and Ethics for tertiary LCE * 4.1 Introduction * 4.2 Rationale for increasing the politicisation and ethicalisation of tertiary LCE practice * 4.3 Tracing the goals, politics and ethics (GPE) nexus in tertiary LCE literature * 4.3.1 New ways of approaching language teaching * 4.3.2 New ways of approaching the teaching of culture * 4.4 Insights from Australian ULTRs on goals, politics and ethics (GPE) in tertiary LCE. * 4.4.1 - Q13: ‘What in your view should be the goals and aims of language and culture teaching at tertiary level in Australia?’ * Finding 1: A big and hard question * Finding 2: Political and ethical dimensions * Finding 3: Language, communication, some culture * Finding 4: Teaching culture matters * Finding 5: Critical thinking * 4.4.2 - Q23: ‘Do you see your role a...
