Cultural politics and the teaching of English at the tertiary level
Автор:Vishwanathan Raja Год: 2012 Издание:LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 320 ISBN: 9783659120817 This book sets out to explore a phenomenon identified as impacting English teaching in EFL/ESL contexts: cultural politics. A fascinatingly complex gamut of considerations informs the export of curriculum, pedagogy and experts from countries where English is a first language to countries where English is a second/ foreign language, leading to accusations of linguistic hegemony and unabashed endorsement of Western cultural agenda. India presents a conundrum insofar as English teaching goes: the curriculum designers are Indian, teaching materials are produced locally and the English teachers are Indian. That even in such a context cultural politics could be lurking in the backdrop, erecting a gate keeping system to deny English to those who need it most, through certain teaching/ learning practices or a top down curriculum , is the point of departure for the work. The book explores through Indian eyes some of the issues pertaining to cultural politics, making allowance for the different...
