Resistance to the Known: Counter-Conduct in Language by D. Rivers

By D. Rivers

This quantity stands as an illustration of resistance to 'the identified' (i.e. the tyranny of the predicted) via person and collective counter-conduct in the area of language schooling. Supported via information drawn from a variety of neighborhood and nationwide contexts, the pro stories of the authors display how the pedagogies, practices, and regulations of 'the establishment' frequently replicate an primary to supply a model of language schooling disinterested with the ideological and political foundations of its personal imposition. whereas being forthright in its quest to withstand and deconstruct sure 'knowns', the first sentiment underpinning this quantity doesn't withhold the hand of reconciliation, sport and reconstruction. As a undertaking of wish, this quantity reminds all language educators that our function is multifaceted, continuous and solid in provider no longer of our targeted curiosity teams, our institutional paymasters, or ourselves, yet fairly of the person scholars who belief that our professionalism will help them in a self-authoring an empowering academic event with no compromising their integrity as human beings.

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These quotes also point to an important reality, that students’ experiences of language travel extend well beyond the classroom, comprising home-stay experiences and getting-around experiences, as well as encounters in everyday life, part-time jobs (for many longer-stay students), and engagement with their peers from myriad countries. For some students, this will be a first experience of living away from the parental home, and for most it represents a first time sojourning abroad. One expectation that emerges, therefore, is that their teacher will act as a conduit into the local culture: an explainer, an ‘insider’, a guide.

Amy, Director of Studies, chain language centre, State Capital, 2012) Phiona Stanley 39 The majority of [teachers] are big booming personalities with smiles. The joker – jocular, ‘hey, look at me’ kind of person ... big, bubbly – people who could host children’s television ... There are lots of them. There are lots of them. I think of the more successful teachers where I am and they’re all dimply-faced people. Almost like a baby face. You know, the non-threatening face that you see on a baby, with big dimples and kind of maybe lower eyes and big smiles.

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