Race, Empire, and English Language Teaching - 9780807755136

Race, Empire, and English Language TeachingCreating Responsible and Ethical Anti-Racist Practice\nAuthor(s): Suhanthie Motha, Margarita Caldern, Chun Zhang\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Teachers' College Press, United States\nImprint: Teachers' College Press\nISBN-13: 9780807755136, 978-0807755136\nSynopsis\nThis timely book takes a critical look at the teaching of English, showing how language is used to create hierarchies of cultural privilege in public schools across the country. Motha closely examines the work of four ESL teachers who developed anti-racist pedagogical practices during their first year of teaching. Their experiences, and those of their students, provide a compelling account of how new teachers might gain agency for culturally responsive teaching in spite of school cultures that often discourage such approaches. The author combines current research with her original analyses to shed light on real classroom situations faced by teachers of linguistically diverse popu.