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ERIC Number: ED598235
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2019-Sep-30
Pages: 264
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: 978-1-7889-2462-7
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Brokering Britain, Educating Citizens: Exploring ESOL and Citizenship
Cooke, Melanie, Ed.; Peutrell, Rob, Ed.
Multilingual Matters
This book addresses the politically charged issue of citizenship and English language learning among adult migrants in the UK. Whilst citizenship learning is inherent in English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), the book argues that top-down approaches and externally-designed curricula are not a productive or useful approach. Meaningful citizenship education in adult ESOL is possible, however, if it brings social and political content centre-stage alongside pedagogy which develops the capabilities for active, grassroots, participatory citizenship. The chapters deliver a detailed examination of citizenship and ESOL in the UK. They address a range of community and college-based settings and the needs and circumstances of different groups of ESOL students, including refugees, migrant mothers, job seekers and students with mental health needs. The book draws attention to the crucial role of ESOL teachers as 'brokers of citizenship' mediating between national policy and the experiences and needs of adult migrant students. The book links together language pedagogy and citizenship theory with the practical concerns of ESOL teachers and students. This book contains the following chapters: (1) Policy and Adult Migrant Language Education in the UK (James Simpson); (2) Thinking About Citizenship and ESOL (Rob Peutrell); (3) ESOL Teachers as Mediators of the Citizenship Testing Regime (Melanie Cooke); (4) Steps to Settlement for Refugees: A Case Study (John Callaghan, Tesfalem Yemane, and Mike Baynham); (5) Argumentation, Citizenship and the Adult ESOL Classroom (Michael Hepworth); (6) Using Participatory Photography in English Classes: Resisting Silence, Resisting Dis-citizenship (Pauline Moon with Roseena Hussain); (7) 'Our Languages': Towards Sociolinguistic Citizenship in ESOL (Melanie Cooke, Dermot Bryers, and Becky Winstanley); (8) Digital Citizenship for Newly Arrived Syrian Refugees through Mobile Technologies (Stefan Vollmer); (9) Migrant Women, Active Citizens (Sheila Macdonald); (10) Queering ESOL: Sexual Citizenship in ESOL Classrooms (John Gray and Melanie Cooke); and (11) From the Outside in: Gatekeeping the Workplace (Celia Roberts).
Multilingual Matters. Available from: Channel View Publications Ltd. St. Nicholas House, 31-34 High Street, Bristol, BS1 2AW, UK. Tel: +44 117 3158562; Fax: +44 117 3158563; e-mail: info@channelviewpublications.com; Web site: http://www.multilingual-matters.com
Publication Type: Books; Collected Works - General
Education Level: Adult Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom
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