Tension and contention in language education for Latinxs in the United States : experience and ethics in teaching and learning /
"Applying a critical lens to language education, this book explores the tensions that Latinx students face in relation to their identities, social and institutional settings, and other external factors. Across diverse contexts, students confront complex debates and contestable affirmations that...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Routledge,
2020.
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| Series: | Language education tensions in global and local contexts
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| Summary: | "Applying a critical lens to language education, this book explores the tensions that Latinx students face in relation to their identities, social and institutional settings, and other external factors. Across diverse contexts, students confront complex debates and contestable affirmations that intersect with their lived experiences and social histories. It highlights the pedagogic and ethical urgency of teacher responsibility, learner agency and social justice in critically addressing the consequences, constraints, and affordances of the language education that Latinx students experience in historically-situated and institutionally defined spaces of practice, ideology and policy"-- |
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| Physical Description: | x, 211 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781138225114 1138225118 9781138225121 1138225126 |