Colonial Temporality and Writing Education

Xiaoye You, Othman Z. Barnawi

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2025
• Print ISBN: 9781800413863
• eBook ISBN: 9781800413887
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Education Teaching Methods
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

This book examines how a colonial matrix of power is established through temporality in English writing education. It offers discourse analyses of higher educational policies that operate in China and Saudi Arabia and then triangulates this data with conversations with writing teachers from representative Chinese and Saudi universities. Drawing on all this data to understand both the structured power relations shaping educational policies and the attendant effects on the writing teachers that inhabit these spaces, the book develops a decolonial comparative method and adopts the concept of "temporal regime" as an analytic lens. It not only attends to the complex and multilayered ways that this regime controls, disciplines and shapes the social wellbeing and professional practices of individual writing teachers, but it also details the various ways that teachers understand, experience, resist, negotiate and appropriate the temporal orders.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 The Coloniality of English Writing Education
• 2 Colonial and Neoliberal Temporalities in Higher Education
• 3 Studying Temporality in Decoloniality and Globalization
• 4 Time in Institutional Discourses of English Education
• 5 Living the Educational Temporalities in Saudi Universities
• 6 Wrestling with Temporal Regimes in Chinese Universities
• 7 Teaching EFL Writing Otherwise: Cross-National Dialogues
• Futureword: Delinking and Relinking in a Multipolar World
• Appendix: Conversation Guidelines
• References
• Index