Ebook: Religious Faith and Teacher Knowledge in English Language Teaching
Author: Bradley Baurain
- Year: 2015
- Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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The field of TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) stands at an active crossroads issues of language, culture, learning, identity, morality, and spirituality mix daily in classrooms around the world. What roles might teachers personal religious beliefs play in their professional activities and contexts? Until recently, such questions had been largely excluded from academic conversations in TESOL. Yet the qualitative research at the core of this book, framed and presented within a teacher knowledge paradigm, demonstrates that personal faith and professional identities and practices can, and do, interact and interrelate in ways that are both meaningful and problematic. This studys Christian TESOL teacher participants, working overseas in Southeast Asia, perceived, explained, and interpreted a variety of such connections within their lived experience. As a result, the beliefs-practices nexus deserves to be further theorized, researched, and discussed. Religious beliefs and human spirituality, as foundational and enduring aspects of human thought and culture, and thus of teaching and learning, deserve a place at the TESOL table.
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