Critical Pedagogies and Language Learning

This important volume on the critical pedagogical approach addresses such topics as critical multiculturalism, gender and language learning, and popular culture. Critical pedagogies are instructional approaches aimed at transforming existing social relations in the interest of greater equity in schools and communities. This paperback edition on the pedagogical approach addresses such topics as critical multiculturalism, gender and language learning, and popular culture. Committed to language education that contributes to social justice, the contributors explore the meaning of creating equitable and critical instructional practices, by exploring diverse representations of knowledge. In addition, recommendations are made for further research, teacher education, and critical testing.

Table of Contents:
Part I. Introduction: 1. Two takes on critical pedagogies Allan Luke; 2. Introduction Bonny Norton and Kelleen Toohey; Part II. Reconceptualizing Second Language Education: 3. Critical Multiculturalism and Second Language Education Ryuko Kubota; 4. Gender and sexuality in foreign/second language education: critical and feminist approaches to research and pedagogy Aneta Pavlenko; 5. Representation, rights and resources: multimodal pedagogies in the language and literacy classroom Pippa Stein; 6. Assessment in multicultural societies: applying democratic principles and practices to language testing; Part III. Challenging Identities: 7. Subversive identities, pedagogical safe houses and critical learning Suresh Canagarajah; 8. 'Why does this feel empowering?': thesis writing concordancing and the corporatizing university Sue Starfield; 9. Modals and memories: a grammar lesson on the Quebec Referendum on Sovereignty Brian Morgan; Part IV. Researching Critical Practices: 10. The logic of non-standard teaching: a course in Cape Verdean culture and history Ines Brito, Ambrizeth Lima and Elsa Auerbach; 11. Comic book culture and second language learners Bonny Norton and Karen Vanderheyden; 12. Putting Classroom interaction in its Place: understanding gender and foreign language learning Jane Sunderland; 13. Living with inelegance in qualitative research on task-based learning Constant Leung, Roxy Harris and Ben Rampton; Part V. Educating Teachers for Change: 14. Introducing a critical pedagogical curriculum to a MATESL course: a reflexive account from feminist perspectives Angel M. Y. Lin; 15. Negotiating expertise in an action research community Kelleen Toohey and Bonnie Waterstone; Performed Ethnography for critical language teacher education Tara Goldstein; Critical moments in a TESOL praxicum Alastair Pennycook.