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Resistance to the Known

Counter-Conduct in Language Education

  • Damian J. Rivers
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction: Conceptualizing ‘the Known’ and the Relational Dynamics of Power and Resistance

    1. Introduction: Conceptualizing ‘the Known’ and the Relational Dynamics of Power and Resistance
      Damian J. Rivers
      Pages 1-20

  3. Countering Micro-Processes in Local Contexts

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 21-21
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    2. Language-Learner Tourists in Australia: Problematizing ‘the Known’ and its Impact on Interculturality
      Phiona Stanley
      Pages 23-46
    3. A Greek Tragedy: Understanding and Challenging ‘the Known’ from a Complexity Perspective
      Achilleas Kostoulas
      Pages 47-70
    4. Symbolic Violence and Pedagogical Abuse in the Language Classroom
      Jacqueline Widin
      Pages 71-93
    5. The Authorities of Autonomy and English Only: Serving Whose Interests?
      Damian J. Rivers
      Pages 94-118

  4. Countering Macro-Processes in National Contexts

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 119-119
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    2. On the Challenge of Teaching English in Latin America with Special Emphasis on Brazil
      Kanavillil Rajagopalan
      Pages 121-143
    3. Dialogizing ‘the Known’: Experience of English Teaching in Japan through an Assay of Derivatives as a Dominant Motif
      Glenn Toh
      Pages 144-167
    4. The Impossibility of Defining and Measuring Intercultural Competencies
      Karin Zotzmann
      Pages 168-191
    5. Transcending Language Subject Boundaries through Language Teacher Education
      Suzanne Burley, Cathy Pomphrey
      Pages 192-215
    6. English-as-Panacea: Untangling Ideology from Experience in Compulsory English Education in Japan
      Julian Pigott
      Pages 216-234
    7. Epilogue
      Damian J. Rivers
      Pages 235-237
  5. Back Matter
    Pages 238-243
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About this book

Introduction

This volume stands as a demonstration of resistance to 'the known' (i.e. the tyranny of the expected) through individual and collective counter-conduct within the domain of language education. Supported by data drawn from various local and national contexts, the book challenges the pedagogies, practices, and policies of 'the institution'.

Keywords

Foreign language education EFL ESL TESOL pedagogy critical theory English Greek language language classroom teacher education teaching English

Editors and affiliations

  • Damian J. Rivers
    • 1
  1. 1.Future University HakodateHokkaidoJapan

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