Isms in Language Education: Oppression, Intersectionality and Emancipation

282 Pages·2017·0.978 MB·

by  Damian J. Rivers (editor), Karin Zotzmann (editor)

Damian J. Rivers, Karin Zotzmann (Eds.)
Isms in Language Education
Language and Social Life
Editors
David Britain
Crispin Thurlow
Volume 11
Isms in Language
Education
Oppression, Intersectionality and Emancipation
Edited by
Damian J. Rivers
Karin Zotzmann
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We live in a time that is so brutal and unforgiving that we must continually
question whether we are dreaming. Even as we despairingly acknowledge the
pain and desperation of so many living in turmoil of national and international
disequilibria, we still remain hapless prisoners of the illusion that we live in the
best of all possible worlds. (McLaren, 2005: xxvii)

Acknowledgements
We wish to express our sincere gratitude to all of the contributing authors, the
series editors and all of the staff at De Gruyter Mouton for their professionalism
and support.

Contents
Karin Zotzmann and Damian J. Rivers
Introduction. Bringing the ISMs into focus    1
Cynthia D. Nelson
1  The -isms as interpretive prisms: A pedagogically useful concept   15
Karin Zotzmann
2  Intersectionality from a critical realist perspective: A case study of Mexican
teachers of English   34
Ursula Lanvers
3  Elitism in language learning in the UK   50
Damian J. Rivers
4  Native-speakerism and the betrayal of the native speaker language-teaching
professional   74
Rodrigo Joseph Rodríguez
5  Against ethnocentrism and toward translanguaging in literacy and English
education   98
Olga Campbell-Thomson
6  Cutting across the ideological split of capitalism/communism: Shcherba’s
insights on foreign language education   122
Sardar M. Anwaruddin
7  Methodism versus teacher agency in TESOL    144
Gregorio Hernandez-Zamora
8  Academicism in language: “A Shelob’s web that devours and kills from
inside”   165
Seyyed-Abdolhamid Mirhosseini
9  Scientism as a linchpin of oppressing isms in language education
research   185
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Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta
10  Languaging and isms of reinforced boundaries across settings:
Multidisciplinary ethnographical explorations   203
David Rhodes
11  Heterosexism: A pedagogy of homophobic oppression   230
Roslyn Appleby
12  Occidental romanticism and English language education   249
Index   267
Addresses   270