Interrogating the Social Impact of English Language Teaching Policies in Colombia from the Vantage Point of Rural Areas

Autor/in	Cruz-Arcila, Ferney
Titel	Interrogating the Social Impact of English Language Teaching Policies in Colombia from the Vantage Point of Rural Areas
Quelle	In: Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 27 (2017) 2, S.46-60 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1839-7387
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; English (Second Language); Second Language Instruction; Educational Policy; Rural Education; Social Justice; Social Change; English Teachers; Professional Identity; Educational Practices; Socioeconomic Influences; Colombia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Ländliche Erwachsenenbildung; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Sozialer Wandel; English language lessons; Teacher; Teachers; Englischunterricht; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Bildungspraxis; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Kolumbien
Abstract	Drawing on a larger study of the current state of affairs of English language teaching (ELT) in rural Colombia, this paper interrogates the social impact which education policies promoting English have been associated with. Informed mainly by Nancy Fraser's theory of social justice, I analyse teachers' narratives (obtained through interviews and teaching biographies) in an attempt to point at specific issues that need to be considered, in order to more truthfully account for social development through education policy. In doing so, from the angle of ELT in rural contexts, the paper examines where it is that rural regions stand in terms of cultural and socioeconomic arrangements operating in the country. It is suggested that in order to really make ELT policy socially impactful, these wider cultural and socioeconomic arrangements need to be examined, questioned and indeed integrated into policy making. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Society for the Provision of Education in Rural Australia. P.O. Box 659, Wembly, Western Australia 6913. Tel: +08-9285-0626; e-mail: admin@spera.asn.au; Web site: http://www.spera.asn.au/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01