Brokering Britain, Educating Citizens - Exploring ESOL and Citizenship

This book is a detailed examination of citizenship and English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) in the UK. It draws attention to the crucial role of teachers as mediators between policy and the needs of adult migrant students. The book links together pedagogy and theory with the practical concerns of ESOL teachers and students.

About the author

Melanie Cooke is currently Lecturer in ESOL Education at King’s College, London. Her books include Brokering Britain, Educating Citizens: exploring ESOL and Citizenship (2019, with Rob Peutrell), The Routledge Handbook of Language and Superdiversity (2018, section editor with James Simpson) and ESOL: A Critical Guide (2008, with James Simpson). She has published in TESOL Quarterly, Language and Education, Linguistics and Education, Language Assessment Quarterly, Journal of Language, Identity and Education and Gender and Language. She was a co-organiser of the ESRC seminar series 'Queering ESOL' (with John Gray and Mike Baynham) and has collaborated with Dermot Bryers and Becky Winstanley on several participatory ESOL projects, the most recent being the Leverhulme funded ‘Our Languages’. 
Rob Peutrell is an ESOL lecturer at Nottingham College, Nottingham, UK. He has taught both EFL and ESOL, and worked as a learning support lecturer.

Product details

• Assisted by: Melanie Cooke (Editor), Cooke Melanie (Editor), Rob Peutrell (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.09.2019
• EAN: 9781788924627
• ISBN: 978-1-78892-462-7
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 580 g
• Series: Language, Mobility and Institutions; Language, Mobility and Institu
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; English, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, EDUCATION / Adult & Continuing Education, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Language teaching and learning, Adult education, continuous learning, Language teaching & learning (other than ELT)