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This volume provides an original theoretical and practical discussion around language ontology, social theory, ethics, and pedagogy to enhance socially committed teaching and scholarship in Higher Education. The authors focus on language and literacy and English for Academic Purposes provisions in HE and bring together social semiotics (Systemic Functional Semiotics) and Bourdieu's Field Theory to illuminate the norms and orthodoxies which shape practices in these fields. Part 1 aims to 'break the illusio' around language ontology, ethics and pedagogy which hinders social justice aspirations. Part 2 proposes ways to recover meaning and move forward, through deliberate ethical considerations, and a detailed and expanded knowledgebase for language educators. The volume will be of interest to anyone involved in language and literacy in Higher Education.
List of contents
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I: Breaking The Illusio.- Chapter 2. Language ontology as illusion.- Chapter 3. Illusio and Ethos in Academia.- Chapter 4. Changing the world from the classroom: Pedagogy as illusion.- Part II: Recovery.- Chapter 5. Heresy, Ethics, and Scholarship.- Chapter 6. Educating for Agency and Solidarity.- Chapter 7. Conclusion.
About the author
Laetitia Monbec is a Lecturer and the Director of Scholarship in the Language Centre at the University of Leeds, UK. She has taught academic literacies and EAP in a range of disciplines, colour semiotics in Design, and published on Systemic Functional Semiotics/Genre approaches to EAP, academic literacy in Nursing, and critical thinking.
Alex Ding is Professor of English for Academic Purposes at the University of Leeds, UK, where he co-leads the MA in Teaching English for Academic Purposes. He is co-author of The English for Academic Purposes Practitioner: Operating on the Edge of Academia and recently co-edited Social Theory for English for Academic Purposes and Practitioner Agency and Identity in English for Academic Purposes.
Summary
This volume provides an original theoretical and practical discussion around language ontology, social theory, ethics, and pedagogy to enhance socially committed teaching and scholarship in Higher Education. The authors focus on language and literacy and English for Academic Purposes provisions in HE and bring together social semiotics (Systemic Functional Semiotics) and Bourdieu’s Field Theory to illuminate the norms and orthodoxies which shape practices in these fields. Part 1 aims to ‘break the illusio’ around language ontology, ethics and pedagogy which hinders social justice aspirations. Part 2 proposes ways to recover meaning and move forward, through deliberate ethical considerations, and a detailed and expanded knowledgebase for language educators. The volume will be of interest to anyone involved in language and literacy in Higher Education.
