Race and ethnicity in English language teaching : Korea in focus / Christopher Joseph Jenks.

Author
Jenks, Christopher Joseph [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Bristol ; Tonawanda, NY ; North York, Ontario : Multilingual Matters, [2017]
  • ©2017
Description
xi, 183 pages ; 22 cm.

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    This book examines racism and racialized discourses in the ELT profession in South Korea. The book is informed by a number of different critical approaches to race and discourse, and the discussions contained in the chapters offer one way of exploring how the ELT profession can be understood from such perspectives. Observations made are based on the understanding that racism should not be viewed as individual acts of discrimination, but rather as a system of social structures. While the book is principally concerned with language teaching and learning in South Korea, the findings are situated in a wider discussion of race and ethnicity in the global ELT profession. The book makes the following argument: White normativity is an ideological commitment and a form of racialized discourse that comes from the social actions of those involved in the ELT profession; this normative model or ideal standard constructs a system of racial discrimination that is founded on White privilege, saviorism and neoliberalism. Drawing on a wide range of data sources, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in critically examining ELT. Book jacket.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 164-180) and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction: Overview and Objectives
    • Critical Approaches to Race
    • Korea in Context
    • White Normativity in ELT
    • White Saviorism in ELT
    • White Neoliberalism in ELT
    • Beyond Korea: Racial Capitalism and White Public Spaces
    • Conclusion and Future Directions.
    ISBN
    • 9781783098422 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
    • 1783098422 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
    • 9781783098415 (paperback : acid-free paper)
    • 1783098414 (paperback : acid-free paper)
    LCCN
    2017013358
    OCLC
    982440252
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