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.authorWest, Gordon Blaine
dc.date.accessioned2015-10-02T21:10:21Z
dc.date.available2015-10-02T21:10:21Z
dc.date.issued2014-12
dc.description.abstractCritical 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.description.degreeM.A.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/101229
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherUniversity of Hawaii at Manoa
dc.relationTheses for the degree of Master of Arts (University of Hawaii at Manoa). Second Language Studies.
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dc.subjectEnglish language teaching
dc.titleDoing critical language pedagogy in neoliberal spaces: a materialist narrative analysis of teaching young learners of English in a Korean hagwon
dc.typeThesis
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