Moving beyond Technicism in English-Language Teacher Education - 9781498592512

Moving beyond Technicism in English-Language Teacher EducationA Case Study from Turkey\nAuthor(s): Yasemin Tezgiden Cakcak\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Lexington Books\nISBN-13: 9781498592512, 978-1498592512\nSynopsis\nDrawing attention to the threats that an overreliance on teaching techniques poses for teacher creativity, student voice, and the well-being of democracy, Moving beyond Technicism in English-Language Teacher Education advocates a critical approach to education. Using the authors own personal experiences, this book offers a critical analysis of the technicist English-language teacher education programs introduced by Turkeys Council of Higher Education in the neoliberal period. Beginning with the implementation of critical education at the Village Institutes in the early years of the Republic of Turkey, the book documents how teacher education practices in Turkey evolved from liberatory to mechanic with the influence of.