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Antisocial Language Teaching

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This book examines major issues with the ideologies and institutions behind the discipline of ELT and diagnoses the industry as in dire need of treatment, with the solution being a full decentering...
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  • 21 September 2022
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The centering of whiteness in English Language Teaching (ELT) renders the industry callous, corrupt and cruel; or, antisocial. Using the diagnostic criteria for Antisocial Personality Disorder as a rhetorical device, this book examines major issues with the ideologies and institutions behind the discipline of ELT and diagnoses the industry as in dire need of treatment, with the solution being a full decentering of whiteness. A vision for a more just version of ELT is offered as an alternative to the harm caused by its present-day incarnation. With a unique linkage of discourse on whiteness, language and ability, this book will be necessary reading for students, academics and administrators involved in ELT around the world.

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Price: $29.95
Publisher: Channel View Publications
Imprint: Multilingual Matters
Series: New Perspectives on Language and Education
Publication Date: 21 September 2022
Trim Size: 9.20 X 6.15 in
ISBN: 9781800413269
Format: Paperback
BISACs: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, Language teaching and learning, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism, Social discrimination and social justice
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Writing in a forceful but engaging style that is just as often memoir as it is polemic, Gerald pulls no punches and joins a growing and increasingly assertive community of critical scholars who are challenging the very foundations on which the ‘teaching of standardized English’ is constructed. This makes for compelling, even if (for some of us) unsettling, reading.

JPB Gerald is an adult educator and theorist, and a 2022 graduate of the EdD program in Instructional Leadership from CUNY – Hunter College, USA. Through his writing, teaching, podcast and his public scholarship overall, he seeks justice for the racially, linguistically and neurologically minoritized.

Prologue
Introduction
Part One: Disorder
The Great Pyramid Scheme
Justified
A Dark Projection
Dis/abling Blackness
Ability, Intelligence and Language
Bad at English
Language Teaching as an Instrument of Pathologization
Part Two: Symptoms
Criterion 1
Criterion 2
Criterion 3
Criterion 4
Criterion 5
Criterion 6
Criterion 7
Part Three: Treatment...?
The Ezel Project
Prosocial Language Teaching
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
References