1st Edition

Social Justice in English Language Teacher Education in Latin America

Edited By Darío Luis Banegas, Hugo Santiago Sanchez Copyright 2025
102 Pages
by Routledge

102 Pages
by Routledge

102 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines how social justice principles can transform English Language Teacher Education (ELTE) programmes in Latin America. It showcases both research and practical applications conducted with pre-service and in-service teachers across Latin America, including Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, and Uruguay, offering practical strategies for educators, researchers, and policymakers to... Read more

Introduction: social justice and language teacher education from Latin America
Darío Luis Banegas and Hugo Santiago Sanchez

 

1. Social justice in English language learning in Ecuador: Beliefs of indigenous higher education teachers and indigenous and mestizo student teachers
Esteban Heras, Ana María Calle, Verónica León, and Cristian Pichasaca

 

2. School and social educational vulnerability in Chile: Experiences and preparedness of novice teachers of English
Gloria Romero

 

3. Student teachers’ knowledge production processes within socially just educational principles and practices in Brazil
Livia A. D. Rodrigues and Ana Paula Duboc

4. Chilean EFL student teachers and social justice: Ambiguity and uncertainties in understanding their professional pedagogical responsibility
Malba Barahona and Ximena Ibaceta-Quijanes

 

5. Striving to cope: The quest for social justice in initial teacher education in Uruguay
Gabriel Diaz Maggioli

 

6. The journey of a critical-oriented ELT curriculum and the identities of teacher educators: A collaborative and analytic autoethnography
Mario E. López-Gopar,William M. Sughrua and Vilma Huerta Cordova

Biography

Darío Luis Banegas is a Senior Lecturer in Language Education at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His main areas of interest are language teacher education, inclusion, curriculum, and action research.

Hugo Santiago Sanchez is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Bath, UK. He specialises in language teacher cognition, pre-service and in-service teacher education, and critical pedagogies.