Christian and Critical English Language Educators in Dialogue
Pedagogical and Ethical Dilemmas
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The legacy of English teaching and Christian missionaries is a flashpoint within the field of English language teaching. This critical examination of the place of Christianity in the field is unique in presenting the voices of TESOL professionals from a wide range of religious and spiritual perspectives. About half identify themselves as "Christian" while the others identify themselves as Buddhist, atheist, spiritualist, and variations of these and other faiths.
What is common for all the authors is their belief that values have an important place in the classroom. What they disagree on is whether and how spiritual values should find expression in learning and teaching. This volume dramatizes how scholars in the profession wrestle with ideological, pedagogical, and spiritual dilemmas as they seek to understand the place of faith in education. To sustain this conversation, the book is structured dialogically.
Each section includes a set of position chapters in which authors explain their views of faith/pedagogy integration, a set of chapters by authors responding to these positions while articulating their own views on the subject, and discussion questions to engage readers in comparing the positions of all the authors, reflecting on their own experiences and values, and advancing the dialogue in fresh and personal directions.
What is common for all the authors is their belief that values have an important place in the classroom. What they disagree on is whether and how spiritual values should find expression in learning and teaching. This volume dramatizes how scholars in the profession wrestle with ideological, pedagogical, and spiritual dilemmas as they seek to understand the place of faith in education. To sustain this conversation, the book is structured dialogically.
Each section includes a set of position chapters in which authors explain their views of faith/pedagogy integration, a set of chapters by authors responding to these positions while articulating their own views on the subject, and discussion questions to engage readers in comparing the positions of all the authors, reflecting on their own experiences and values, and advancing the dialogue in fresh and personal directions.
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Content
Preface
Acknowledgments
Contributors' Spiritual Identification Statements
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 New Possibilities for the Spiritual and the Critical in Pedagogy
Suresh Canagarajah, Pennsylvania State University
Part I. Setting the Tone: Dialogue and Discourse
2 Nonjudgmental Steps on a Road to Understanding
Julian Edge, University of Manchester, UK
3 Is Dialogue Possible? Challenges to Evangelicals and Non-Evangelicals in English Language Teaching
Bill Johnston, Indiana University, US
4 First the Log in Your Own Eye: Missionaries and their Critics
Michael Chamberlain, Azusa Pacific University, US
5 A Preliminary Survey of Christian English Language Teachers in Countries that Restrict Missionary Activity
Karen Asenavage Loptes, University of Pennsylvania, US
Responses
6 Is Dialogue Possible? Anti-Intellectualism, Relativism, Politics and Linguistic Ideologies
Alastair Pennycook, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
7 Dialogue and Discourse
Robert Phillipson, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
8 Questioning Religious "Ideals" and Intentionalities: Staving off Religious Arrogance and Bigotry in ELT
Vaidehi Ramanathan, The University of California, Davis, US
9 Can We Talk? Finding a Platform for Dialogue among Values-based Professionals in Post-Positivist Education
Suresh Canagarajah, Pennsylvania State University, US
Discussion Questions
Part II. Ideological and Political Dilemmas
10 Deconstructing/Reconstructing the Missionary English Teacher Identity
Mary Shepard Wong, Azusa Pacific University, US
11 English and Education in Anglophone Africa: Historical and Current Realities
Sinfree Makoni and Busi Makoni, Pennsylvania State University, US
12 Confronting the Empire: Language Teachers as Charitable Guests
Myrrl Byler, Mennonite Partners in China, US
13 Christian English Teacher's Presence: Reflecting Constantine or Christ?
James Stabler-Havener, Sichuan Normal University, PR China
Responses
14 A Former "Missionary Kid" Responds
Stephanie Vandrick, University of San Francisco, US
15 Caught between Poststructuralist Relativism and Materialism or Liberal and Critical Multiculturalism?
Manka M. Varghese, University of Washington, US
16 The English Language and the Word of God
Zoltán Dörnyei, University of Nottingham, UK
Discussion Questions
Part III. Pedagogical AND PROFESSIONAL Dilemmas
17 The Courage to Teach as a Non-Native teacher: The Confession of a Christian Teacher
John Liang, Biola University, US
18 English Teachers, Language Learning, and the Issue of Power
Don Snow, University of Nanjing, PR China
19 Classroom Guidelines for Teachers with Convictions
Kitty B. Purgason, Biola University, US
Responses
20 The Pedagogical Dilemmas of Faith in ELT: A Dialogic Response
Brian Morgan, York University, Canada
21 Power and Change in ELT: Thoughts from a Fellow Traveler
Dana R. Ferris, University of California, Davis, US
22 Reconsidering Roadside Assistance: The Problem with Christian Approaches to Teaching the English Language
Terry A. Osborn, Fordham University, US
Discussion Questions
Part IV. Spiritual AND ETHICAL Dilemmas
23 Spiritual Dimensions in Language Teaching: A Personal Reflection
Ryuko Kubota, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
24 Spiritual Lessons Learned from a Language Teacher
Christopher A. Bradley, Siebold University of Nagaski, Japan
25 The Spiritual Ecology of Second Language Pedagogy
David I. Smith, Calvin College, US
26 Truth in Teaching English
Richard E. Robison, Azusa Pacific Universit, US
Responses
27 Imperatives, Dilemmas, and Conundrums in Spiritual Dimensions of ELT
H. Douglas Brown, San Francisco State University, US
28 Additive Perspective on Religion or Growing Hearts with Wisdom
Ahmar Mahboob, University of Sydney, Australia
29 A Question of Priorities
Andy Curtis, Chinese University of Hong Kong, SAR, China
Discussion Questions
Conclusion
30 Christian and Critical Language Educators in Dialogue: Imagining Possibilities
Mary Shepard Wong, Azusa Pacific University, US &
Suresh Canagarajah, Pennsylvania State University, US
Afterword
The Dilemma
Earl Stevick
with Carolyn Kristjánsson, Trinity Western University, Canada
Acknowledgments
Contributors' Spiritual Identification Statements
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 New Possibilities for the Spiritual and the Critical in Pedagogy
Suresh Canagarajah, Pennsylvania State University
Part I. Setting the Tone: Dialogue and Discourse
2 Nonjudgmental Steps on a Road to Understanding
Julian Edge, University of Manchester, UK
3 Is Dialogue Possible? Challenges to Evangelicals and Non-Evangelicals in English Language Teaching
Bill Johnston, Indiana University, US
4 First the Log in Your Own Eye: Missionaries and their Critics
Michael Chamberlain, Azusa Pacific University, US
5 A Preliminary Survey of Christian English Language Teachers in Countries that Restrict Missionary Activity
Karen Asenavage Loptes, University of Pennsylvania, US
Responses
6 Is Dialogue Possible? Anti-Intellectualism, Relativism, Politics and Linguistic Ideologies
Alastair Pennycook, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
7 Dialogue and Discourse
Robert Phillipson, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
8 Questioning Religious "Ideals" and Intentionalities: Staving off Religious Arrogance and Bigotry in ELT
Vaidehi Ramanathan, The University of California, Davis, US
9 Can We Talk? Finding a Platform for Dialogue among Values-based Professionals in Post-Positivist Education
Suresh Canagarajah, Pennsylvania State University, US
Discussion Questions
Part II. Ideological and Political Dilemmas
10 Deconstructing/Reconstructing the Missionary English Teacher Identity
Mary Shepard Wong, Azusa Pacific University, US
11 English and Education in Anglophone Africa: Historical and Current Realities
Sinfree Makoni and Busi Makoni, Pennsylvania State University, US
12 Confronting the Empire: Language Teachers as Charitable Guests
Myrrl Byler, Mennonite Partners in China, US
13 Christian English Teacher's Presence: Reflecting Constantine or Christ?
James Stabler-Havener, Sichuan Normal University, PR China
Responses
14 A Former "Missionary Kid" Responds
Stephanie Vandrick, University of San Francisco, US
15 Caught between Poststructuralist Relativism and Materialism or Liberal and Critical Multiculturalism?
Manka M. Varghese, University of Washington, US
16 The English Language and the Word of God
Zoltán Dörnyei, University of Nottingham, UK
Discussion Questions
Part III. Pedagogical AND PROFESSIONAL Dilemmas
17 The Courage to Teach as a Non-Native teacher: The Confession of a Christian Teacher
John Liang, Biola University, US
18 English Teachers, Language Learning, and the Issue of Power
Don Snow, University of Nanjing, PR China
19 Classroom Guidelines for Teachers with Convictions
Kitty B. Purgason, Biola University, US
Responses
20 The Pedagogical Dilemmas of Faith in ELT: A Dialogic Response
Brian Morgan, York University, Canada
21 Power and Change in ELT: Thoughts from a Fellow Traveler
Dana R. Ferris, University of California, Davis, US
22 Reconsidering Roadside Assistance: The Problem with Christian Approaches to Teaching the English Language
Terry A. Osborn, Fordham University, US
Discussion Questions
Part IV. Spiritual AND ETHICAL Dilemmas
23 Spiritual Dimensions in Language Teaching: A Personal Reflection
Ryuko Kubota, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
24 Spiritual Lessons Learned from a Language Teacher
Christopher A. Bradley, Siebold University of Nagaski, Japan
25 The Spiritual Ecology of Second Language Pedagogy
David I. Smith, Calvin College, US
26 Truth in Teaching English
Richard E. Robison, Azusa Pacific Universit, US
Responses
27 Imperatives, Dilemmas, and Conundrums in Spiritual Dimensions of ELT
H. Douglas Brown, San Francisco State University, US
28 Additive Perspective on Religion or Growing Hearts with Wisdom
Ahmar Mahboob, University of Sydney, Australia
29 A Question of Priorities
Andy Curtis, Chinese University of Hong Kong, SAR, China
Discussion Questions
Conclusion
30 Christian and Critical Language Educators in Dialogue: Imagining Possibilities
Mary Shepard Wong, Azusa Pacific University, US &
Suresh Canagarajah, Pennsylvania State University, US
Afterword
The Dilemma
Earl Stevick
with Carolyn Kristjánsson, Trinity Western University, Canada