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Unauthorized Outlooks on Second Languages Education and Policies

Voices from Colombia

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Editors:
  1. Carmen Helena Guerrero-Nieto

    1. Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Bogotá, Colombia

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  • Presents a local and under-represented perspective on second languages education
  • Demonstrates the diversity of practices, beliefs, values, pedagogies, and concerns relating to ELT
  • Contributes to the mobilization and internationalization of English (and other second/foreign) language teaching

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About this book

This edited book presents a critical vision of language and education policies and practices in Colombia, examining neoliberal perspectives which influence the promotion of English at all levels in the Colombian educational system. Some of the chapters emphasize questions of language teacher recognition and empowerment, while others focus on both teachers and students’ visions of national policies, particularly with regard to colonial and Eurocentric discourses and subsequent discriminatory practices. The volume throws light on recent language and education policies and practices in a South American country where much current research in this area is published in Spanish but not in English, and it gives visibility to voices that are often missing from the global conversation around English language teaching (ELT). Making these voices heard is part of a decolonial project that gives legitimacy to "unauthorized outlooks", embodies knowledge, and focuses on presentingalternatives to second language teaching-learning and research practices from the Global North ontoepistemology. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of ELT, Language Policies and Planning, Applied Linguistics, and Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies. It also has international appeal, as its localized gaze can bring about important considerations regarding other local knowledges.

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Unauthorized Outlooks on Second Languages Education and Policies: Voices from Colombia

    • Carmen Helena Guerrero-Nieto
    Pages 1-12

  3. Setting Up the Warp

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Disobedient ELT Research: Breaking the Rules, Finding Alternatives, Invoking Other Ontologies

      • Sandra **mena Bonilla-Medina, Yolanda Samacá-Bohórquez
      Pages 15-33

    3. Educational Policies in the Process of Language Teaching and Learning in Colombia: Challenges Emerging from the Implementation of Bilingual Plans in Bogotá

      • Eliana María Rubio-Cancino, Yiny Marcela Martínez-Bohórquez
      Pages 35-53

    4. An Approach to the Discourse of Standard English: A Disciplinary Power Exercise in the Colombian ELT Curriculum

      • Alber Josué Forero-Mondragón
      Pages 55-75

    5. Appropriating ELT in Colombia: A Critical Call to Localize Language Teaching

      • Jhon Jairo Losada-Rivas
      Pages 77-98

    6. Tracking Colombian Andes Speech: A Decolonial Take on Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language

      • Éder García-Dussán
      Pages 99-117

  4. Crossing Threads and Stitching Textured Fabrics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
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    2. Breaking the Silence and Empowering English Language Student-Teachers Through Critical Collaborative Autoethnography

      • Jairo Enrique Castañeda-Trujillo
      Pages 121-140

    3. Challenging the Master Narratives of the Market and of English in L2 Pedagogy: Striving for a Reorientation

      • Ferney Cruz-Arcila, Vanessa Solano-Cohen
      Pages 141-161

    4. Colombian English Language Teachers’ Storied Agency Contesting the Inset of Globalization and Capitalism of Education

      • Álvaro Hernán Quintero-Polo, Carmen Helena Guerrero-Nieto
      Pages 163-187

    5. Deskilling of English Teachers in Colombia: Neoliberalism, Internal Colonialism, and the Reification of English

      • Carmen Helena Guerrero-Nieto, Álvaro Hernán Quintero-Polo
      Pages 189-208

    6. Examining Racialized Practices in ELT: Enhancing Critical New Horizons

      • Sandra **mena Bonilla-Medina
      Pages 209-228

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 229-237
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Bogotá, Colombia

    Carmen Helena Guerrero-Nieto

About the editor

​Carmen Helena Guerrero Nieto is a full professor in the PhD program in Education and in the MA in Communication Education from the Universidad Distrital, Colombia. Her research interests and publications are in critical pedagogy, bilingualism, and teacher education. Her work has aimed at voicing English teachers’ concerns, experiences and interests. She is the main researcher of the group Critical Studies on Educational Policies. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Unauthorized Outlooks on Second Languages Education and Policies

  • Book Subtitle: Voices from Colombia

  • Editors: Carmen Helena Guerrero-Nieto

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45051-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-45050-1Published: 28 December 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-45053-2Due: 28 January 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-45051-8Published: 27 December 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 237

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Language Policy and Planning, Applied Linguistics, Latin American Culture, Language Education, Multilingualism

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