Doing critical language pedagogy in neoliberal spaces: A materialist narrative analysis of teaching young learners of English in a Korean hagwon
Doing critical language pedagogy in neoliberal spaces: A materialist narrative analysis of teaching young learners of English in a Korean hagwon
| dc.contributor.author | West, Gordon Blaine | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-05-12T21:15:42Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-05-12T21:15:42Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
| 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 paper, 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. | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 91 pages | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/67836 | |
| dc.language.iso | en-US | en_US |
| dc.title | Doing critical language pedagogy in neoliberal spaces: A materialist narrative analysis of teaching young learners of English in a Korean hagwon | en_US |
| dc.type | Working Paper | en_US |
| dc.type.dcmi | Text | en_US |