1st Edition
Transformation and Empowerment through Education Reconstructing our Relationship with Education
List of Contributors
Chapter One: Introduction: Transformation through education in contemporary times: A Freirean reconsideration Raqib Chowdhury
Section One: Education, Pedagogy and Access
Chapter Two: Negotiating identities: Classroom picturebook discussions with diverse learners Sue Wilson and Jennifer Rennie
Chapter Three: EFL learners’ roles in a meditational process of written corrective feedback: Writing accuracy and responses Trang Thi Doan Dang
Chapter Four: Empowerment and knowledge transformation through critical reading and thinking: A case study of Iranian university students H. Shokouhi and M. Latifi
Chapter Five: Reweaving the ‘Self’ through a dialogic approach to ESP pedagogy in Iran: Accounts of ontological transformations Mahtab Janfada
Chapter Six: Pedagogical and professional perspectives on developing graduates’ employability: The case of university translation programs in Vietnam Thu T.Q. Do
Section Two: Education, Pedagogy and Learning
Chapter Seven: Tensions and resistance during collaborative efforts for change: Facilitating the implementation of task-based pedagogy in Iran Elahe Shakhsi Dastgahian, Marianne Turner and Janet Scull
Chapter Eight: Religious orientation and English language achievement in secondary education: A correlational study in an Iranian context Beheshteh Shakhsi Dastgahian and Ebrahim Khodadady
Chapter Nine: Towards a pedagogy to help postgraduate students avoid plagiarism in English academic writing in the EFL context Thi Van Lam Nguyen
Chapter Ten: Redefining the role of Asian literacy in Western-based undergraduate curricula across disciplines: A case of Australian universities Caterina Ho
Section Three: Education, Pedagogy and Power
Chapter Eleven: From the middle out: Empowering transformational leadership capability of middle-level school leaders Vanessa Fernandes
Chapter Twelve: Putting the US higher education card on building local capacity: Saudi Arabia as a national case Osman Barnawi
Chapter Thirteen: The teacher as a colony: Cambodian cases of fabrication and self-empowerment Takayo Ogisu and Eisuke Saito
Chapter Fourteen: Conclusion
Revisiting transformation and empowerment through education: Generating themes Elahe Shakhsi Dastgahian
Biography
Raqib Chowdhury is a Lecturer in TESOL/ESL in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Australia.
