Pedagogical principles and practices to integrate social justice issues into your language classroom Covers social class and neoliberalism, intersectionality, race, ethnicity and antiracism, environmental justice, gender and sexual identity Includes problem-posing and reflective tasks, sample lesson plans and activities to allow you to critically reflect on your practice and apply social justice pedagogies in your own teaching Includes case studies from across the world adopting a more international perspective and challenging the dominant US-centric and Eurocentric approaches to social justice language education Challenging the liberal notion of the classroom as a neutral space, Social Justice and the Language Classroom invites you to become advocates, allies, and activists, and gives you the conceptual and practical tools to fight against systemic injustice in education and beyond. This practical resource book examines issues of inequity, marginalization, discrimination, and oppression that are regularly experienced by language learners coming from diverse backgrounds in terms of race, ethnicity, social class, ability, language and sexuality. Drawing on examples from international contexts and including problem-posing and reflective tasks, sample lesson plans, activities and resource materials, this book provides you with vital knowledge for socially just language teaching and provides the pedagogical tools to apply these in classroom contexts. With its emphasis on intersectionality and global competence, the book builds bridges between critical pedagogy, political economy, critical race theory, feminist pedagogy, and queer theory to equip you with the tools to recognize systems of oppression and inequality, understand how they interact, and to adopt social justice pedagogies for transformation and social change.

About the Author
Deniz Orta tepe Hart is Lecturer in the TESOL program at the University of Glasgow

Reviews
"Social Justice and the Language Classroom makes a compelling and grounded argument for connecting social justice, language education and decolonial perspectives. As language educators we cannot sit silently by in the face of local and wider injustices. It shows both why critical language education projects are essential and how they can be developed." -Alastair Pennycook, University of Technology Sydney



Book Information
ISBN 9781474491761
Author Deniz Orta tepe Hart
Format Paperback
Page Count 208
Imprint Edinburgh University Press
Publisher Edinburgh University Press