1st Edition

Creating Classrooms of Peace in English Language Teaching

Edited By Barbara M. Birch Copyright 2022
242 Pages 28 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

242 Pages 28 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

242 Pages 28 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Timely and accessible, this edited volume brings together leading scholars to discuss methods for supporting reconciliation, peace, and sustainable and social change in English language teaching. Around the world, peace and reconciliation are urgent themes that are inextricably connected to the study and practice of teaching English. The book features a diversity of voices and addresses... Read more

Chapter 1 Species Identity and Creating Classrooms of Peace (Birch)


Part 1 Policy and Implementation for Peace

Prologue: Committed Comprehensive Investment (Birch)
Chapter 2 Navigating the Path Toward a Culture of Peace in Colombia (Ferrer Ariza, Forero, and Sánchez Cardona)
Chapter 3 Peace Education in a Colombian Master of Arts Program (Ferrer Ariza, Forero, and Sánchez Cardona)


Part 2 Teacher Education for Peace

Prologue: Committed Comprehensive Preparation (Birch)
Chapter 4 A New Peace Linguistics Approach to Empathy, Language and Leadership (Curtis)
Chapter 5 Building Meta-Cultural Awareness (Gage)
Chapter 6 Expressing Emotions with Students in the Gaza Strip (Imperiale)
Chapter 7 Socio-emotional Education in Muslim Schools (Nasser and El-Bilawi)
Chapter 8 Linguistic Landscape: The Sign and the Self in the Israel/Palestine Region (Schvarcz and Khawaja)


Part 3 Content and Lesson Planning for Peace
Prologue: Committed Classrooms (Birch)
Chapter 9 Critical Group Work for Dialogue and Peacebuilding (Azzi)
Chapter 10 Intentional Peace Education in the English Classroom (Church)
Chapter 11 Leveraging Students’ Citizenship Values with Project-Based Learning (Gómez, Arrieta, and Rosado)
Chapter 12 Creating Intercultural Communicative Competence Through Virtual Collaboration (Guamguami and R’boul)
Chapter 13 Peacemaking Circles in the English Language Classroom (McNair and Pentón Herrera)
Chapter 14 World Englishes and Linguicism: Spreading Linguistic Tolerance (Norova)

Biography

Barbara M. Birch is a professor in the Department of Linguistics at California State University, Fresno, California, USA.