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Preparing Pre-service Teachers for the Singular They: Inclusive EFL Teacher Education

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International Perspectives on Diversity in ELT

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Recent trends in German education, most notably resulting from the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and unprecedented refugee movements, have contributed to renewed interest in teacher education to address issues of equity and access. However, narrowly circumscribed notions of inclusivity continue to marginalise the potentially transformative nature of critical foreign language pedagogy and its ability to address these issues. To address this gap, a module to examine issues regarding non-heteronormativity in English as a foreign language (EFL) was developed as part of an undergraduate seminar to prepare pre-service teachers (PSTs) to teach in inclusive settings. In this chapter, the module and its implementation are described.

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    Carolyn Blume

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  2. IES en Lenguas Vivas Juan Ramón Fernández, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Griselda Beacon

  3. Instituto Superior del Profesorado Joaquín V. González, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Mercedes Pérez Berbain

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Blume, C. (2021). Preparing Pre-service Teachers for the Singular They: Inclusive EFL Teacher Education. In: Banegas, D.L., Beacon, G., Pérez Berbain, M. (eds) International Perspectives on Diversity in ELT. International Perspectives on English Language Teaching. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74981-1_11

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