Creating Classrooms of Peace in English Language Teaching

Timely and accessible, this edited volume brings together leading scholars to discuss methods for supporting reconciliation, peace, and sustainable and social change in English language teaching.

Auteur

Barbara M. Birch is a professor in the Department of Linguistics at California State University-Fresno, California, USA.

Contenu

Chapter 1 Species Identity and Creating Classrooms of Peace (Birch)

Unit 1 Policy and Implementation for Peace

Prologue Committed Comprehensive Investment (Birch)
Chapter 2 Navigating the Path toward a Culture of Peace in Colombia (Ferrer, Forero, and Sanchez)
Chapter 3 Peace Education in a Colombian Master of Arts Program (Ferrer, Forero, and Sanchez)

Unit 2 Teacher Education for Peace Prologue Committed Comprehensive Preparation (Birch)
Chapter 4 New Peace Linguistics (Curtis)
Chapter 5 Building Meta-Cultural Awareness (Gage)
Chapter 6 Expressing Emotions with Students in the Gaza Strip (Imperiale)
Chapter 7 Socio-emotional Education in Muslim Schools (Nasser and El-Bilawi)
Chapter 8 Linguistic Landscape: The Sign and the Self in the Israel/Palestine Region (Schvarcz and Khawaja)

Unit 3 Content and Lesson Planning for Peace
Prologue Committed Classrooms (Birch)
Chapter 9 Critical Group Work for Dialogue and Peacebuilding (Azzi)
Chapter 10 Intentional Peace Education in the English Classroom (Church)
Chapter 11 Leveraging Students' Citizenship Values with Project-Based Learning (Gomez, Arrieta, and Rosado)
Chapter 12 Creating Intercultural Communicative Competence through Virtual Collaboration (Guamguami and R'boul)
Chapter 13 Peacemaking Circles in the English Language Classroom (McNair and Pentón Herrera)
Chapter 14 World Englishes and Linguicism: Spreading linguistic tolerance (Norova)