Doing critical language pedagogy in neoliberal spaces : a materialist narrative analysis of teaching young learners of english in a Korean hagwon

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dc.contributor.author West, Gordon Blaine
dc.date.accessioned 2015-10-02T21:10:21Z
dc.date.available 2015-10-02T21:10:21Z
dc.date.issued 2014-12
dc.description M.A. University of Hawaii at Manoa 2014.
dc.description Includes bibliographical references.
dc.description.abstract Critical language pedagogy has been practiced in many contexts, but there have been few reports of critical pedagogy being practiced in neoliberal spaces of private language education. In this thesis, I document critical English language teaching initiatives using the specific case of a South Korean English private language school (hagwon) to demonstrate the possibilities of such an approach in a private institution. Using a critical practitioner research perspective (Cochran-Smith & Lytle, 2009), I collected data from my classes at a hagwon over a 15-month period in the form of artifacts (ballots, student surveys, etc.), images, and student writings. I use emplotment (Polkinghorne, 1995) as a means of creating a narrative from non-narrative data and a materialist analysis (Alaimo & Hekman, 2008) to examine the data. Student resistance, negotiating syllabi, and learner-created materials, and critical episodes in three classes, illustrate the possibilities, need for, and limitations of critical pedagogy in neoliberal spaces.
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10125/101229
dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher [Honolulu] : [University of Hawaii at Manoa], [December 2014]
dc.relation Theses for the degree of Master of Arts (University of Hawaii at Manoa). Second Language Studies.
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dc.subject English language teaching
dc.title Doing critical language pedagogy in neoliberal spaces : a materialist narrative analysis of teaching young learners of english in a Korean hagwon
dc.type Thesis
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