Brokering Britain, Educating Citizens

Exploring ESOL and Citizenship
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78892-461-0
Verlag: Multilingual Matters

Buch, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 404 g

This book addresses the politically charged issue of citizenship and English language learning among adult migrants in the UK. Whilst citizenship learning is inherent in English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), the book argues that top-down approaches and externally-designed curricula are not a productive or useful approach. Meaningful citizenship education in adult ESOL is possible, however, if it brings social and political content centre-stage alongside pedagogy which develops the capabilities for active, grassroots, participatory citizenship. The chapters deliver a detailed examination of citizenship and ESOL in the UK. They address a range of community and college-based settings and the needs and circumstances of different groups of ESOL students, including refugees, migrant mothers, job seekers and students with mental health needs. The book draws attention to the crucial role of ESOL teachers as ‘brokers of citizenship’ mediating between national policy and the experiences and needs of adult migrant students. The book links together language pedagogy and citizenship theory with the practical concerns of ESOL teachers and students.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cooke, Melanie

Peutrell, Rob

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Erwachsenenbildung, lebenslanges Lernen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. Melanie Cooke and Rob Peutrell

Part 1: Framing ESOL and Citizenship in the UK

Chapter 1. James Simpson: Policy and Adult Migrant Language Education in the UK

Chapter 2. Rob Peutrell Thinking About Citizenship and ESOL

Chapter 3. Melanie Cooke: ESOL Teachers as Mediators of the Citizenship Testing Regime

Part 2: Brokering Britain in the Classroom

Chapter 4. John Callaghan, Tesfalem Yemane, Mike Baynham: Steps to Settlement for Refugees: A Case Study

Chapter 5. Michael Hepworth: Argumentation, Citizenship and the Adult ESOL Classroom

Chapter 6. Pauline Moon with Roseena Hussain: Using Participatory Photography in English Classes: Resisting Silence, Resisting Dis-citizenship

Chapter 7. Melanie Cooke, Dermot Bryers and Becky Winstanley: ‘Our Languages’: Towards Sociolinguistic Citizenship in ESOL

Part 3: ESOL and Citizenship in Migrants' Lives

Chapter 8. Stefan Vollmer: Digital Citizenship for Newly Arrived Syrian Refugees Through Mobile Technologies

Chapter 9. Sheila Macdonald: Migrant Women, Active Citizens

Chapter 10. John Gray and Melanie Cooke: Queering ESOL: Sexual Citizenship in ESOL Classrooms

Chapter 11. Celia Roberts: From the Outside in: Gatekeeping the Workplace

Afterword. Rob Peutrell and Melanie Cooke: ESOL, Citizenship and Teacher

Professionalism

Über Autor(innen)

Cooke, Melanie
Melanie Cooke is currently Lecturer in ESOL Education at King’s College, London. Her books include Brokering Britain, Educating Citizens: exploring ESOL and Citizenship (2019, with Rob Peutrell), The Routledge Handbook of Language and Superdiversity (2018, section editor with James Simpson) and ESOL: A Critical Guide (2008, with James Simpson). She has published in TESOL Quarterly, Language and Education, Linguistics and Education, Language Assessment Quarterly, Journal of Language, Identity and Education and Gender and Language. She was a co-organiser of the ESRC seminar series 'Queering ESOL' (with John Gray and Mike Baynham) and has collaborated with Dermot Bryers and Becky Winstanley on several participatory ESOL projects, the most recent being the Leverhulme funded ‘Our Languages’.

Peutrell, Rob
Rob Peutrell is an ESOL lecturer at Nottingham College, Nottingham, UK. He has taught both EFL and ESOL, and worked as a learning support lecturer.

Melanie Cooke is a Lecturer in ESOL and Applied Linguistics, in the Department of Education, Communication and Society at King’s College, London, UK. She taught both EFL and ESOL before becoming a researcher.

Rob Peutrell is an ESOL lecturer at Nottingham College, Nottingham, UK. He has taught both EFL and ESOL, and worked as a learning support lecturer.