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Afterword: Who Controls the Production of Knowledge? Teacher Empowerment in TESOL Teacher Education

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At the end of the day, the chapters in this volume collectively provide us with a lens through which we can interrogate prevalent assumptions and practices in TESOL Teacher Education. Much has been said about the nature of language education and language teacher education today (Goodwin, 2020; Miller & Slocombe, 2012), but the dominant trajectory has been to ‘prepare students and teachers for globalization’. This volume unframes this trajectory and locates mobilities of knowledge, practices and bodies in the field within the dynamic but unequally structured contexts of transnationalism.

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Tupas, R. (2021). Afterword: Who Controls the Production of Knowledge? Teacher Empowerment in TESOL Teacher Education. In: Ahmed, A., Barnawi, O. (eds) Mobility of Knowledge, Practice and Pedagogy in TESOL Teacher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64140-5_16

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