Social Justice in EAP and ELT Contexts

Global Higher Education Perspectives

Paul Breen, Michèle le Roux, Paul Breen, Michèle le Roux

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9781350351202
• eBook ISBN:
  9781350351226
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Teaching Languages

This book articulates an understanding of what is meant by the term social justice from a global perspective, drawing upon examples of practice from across a range of English for academic purposes (EAP) and English language teaching (ELT) higher education contexts. Presently, within western higher educational systems, there is a drive for greater integration of approaches that lend themselves to social justice. However, questions still remain about what that means in practice. This book seeks to answer that not by telling but by showing. It presents a series of chapters that act as vignettes into a diverse set of classrooms, contexts and countries, offering examples of how and where an epistemology of social justice has been put into practice in teaching and learning situations. Such situations range from cross-continental higher educational partnerships between east and west to instances of EAP practitioners' work with refugees from North Africa and the Middle East. These examples are threaded together by the common goal of understanding what it is that defines an enactment of social justice and what the shared denominators are across these contexts. Through looking at these various examples, the authors produce a set of codes and themes that are common to practice across contexts and discuss how these might help inform practice in other areas of language education, higher education and educational development work in general.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Contributors
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: A Reflection Upon Social Justice in EAP and ELT Contexts
• 1 The Evaluation and Evolution of a Framework that Integrates the Awareness of Social Justice into EAP Teaching and Learning Materials
• 2 Curriculum for Change
• 3 Critical EAP: A Marginalised Friend?
• 4 Placing Assessment in the Vanguard of Social Justice in English for Academic Purposes
• 5 The White Gaze and Translanguaging: Getting Multilingual Students’ Voices Heard
• 6 Becoming Socially Just Educators: A Trioethnographic Study of Exploring Professional Identity Through Dialogue, Ethics of Care and Creativity
• 7 What Silence Tells Us
• 8 Adopting a Social Justice Lens in EAP: The Application of Cognitive Skills of Compassionate Communication (CSCC) in Online Task-focused Group Meetings
• 9 English for Academic Purposes for Students in Fragile Environments
• 10 Contesting Narratives of the Deficit Writer: A Writing for Publication Workshop Programme for Displaced Syrian Academics
• 11 A Reflection on Social Justice in International EAP: Addressing (or Not…) Gender Inequality Through English Instruction
• 12 The Journey of Develop EAP: From a Single Step to a More Sustainable and Shared Practice
• 13 English for Research Purposes and Linguistic Diversity: Researcher Reflexivity and Social Justice
• 14 Los de la UABJO: Resisting Linguistic Imperialism in Southern Mexico Through the Indigenisation of Language Pedagogy
• Conclusion: Concluding Reflections Upon Social Justice in EAP and ELT Contexts
• Index
• Copyright