Postcolonial Challenges to Theory and Practice in Elt and Tesol - Geopolitics of Knowledge and Epistemologies of the South

Drawing on the underrepresentation of the Global South in global knowledge production with a focus on the existing inequalities, the book highlights the importance of postcolonial narratives in Global Southern epistemologies in ELT and TESOL.

List of contents

1. What Prompted This Research: Rationales and Objectives 2. The Lack of Epistemic Diversity in ELT, TESOL and Applied Linguistics: Most Prominent Peer-Reviewed Journals 3. Colonial Structures and the Skewed Geopolitics of Knowledge in ELT, TESOL and Applied Linguistics 4. The Interlacement of the Geopolitics of Knowledge and Language 5. South-North Inter-Epistemic Dialogue in ELT, TESOL and Applied Linguistics: Cognitive and Epistemic Dissonance? 6. South-South Inter-Epistemic Dialogue: Southern ELTs, TESOLs and Applied Linguistics(s) 7. Postcolonial Discourses in ELT, TESOL and Applied Linguistics Knowledge 8. Decolonial Knowledges in ELT, TESOL and Applied Linguistics Theory and Practice

About the author

Hamza R'boul is a Research Assistant Professor, Department of International Education, Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Summary

Drawing on the underrepresentation of the Global South in global knowledge production with a focus on the existing inequalities, the book highlights the importance of postcolonial narratives in Global Southern epistemologies in ELT and TESOL.

Product details

• Authors: Hamza R'boul, Hamza (The Education University of Hong K R''boul
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032345154
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3234515-4
• No. of pages: 128
• Series: Global South Perspectives on TESOL
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries; EDUCATION / General, English, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, EDUCATION / Bilingual Education, Sociolinguistics, Language teaching theory and methods, Language teaching and learning, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Multicultural education, Language teaching & learning (other than ELT), Bilingualism and multilingualism, Educational strategies and policy, Applied linguistics for ELT