Antisocial Language Teaching

English and the Pervasive Pathology of Whiteness
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-80041-326-9
Verlag: Multilingual Matters

Buch, Englisch, 180 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 301 g

The centering of whiteness in English Language Teaching (ELT) renders the industry callous, corrupt and cruel; or, antisocial. Using the diagnostic criteria for Antisocial Personality Disorder as a rhetorical device, this book examines major issues with the ideologies and institutions behind the discipline of ELT and diagnoses the industry as in dire need of treatment, with the solution being a full decentering of whiteness. A vision for a more just version of ELT is offered as an alternative to the harm caused by its present-day incarnation. With a unique linkage of discourse on whiteness, language and ability, this book will be necessary reading for students, academics and administrators involved in ELT around the world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gerald, Jpb

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue

Introduction

Part One: Disorder

The Great Pyramid Scheme

Justified

A Dark Projection

Dis/abling Blackness

Ability, Intelligence and Language

Bad at English

Language Teaching as an Instrument of Pathologization

Part Two: Symptoms

Criterion 1

Criterion 2

Criterion 3

Criterion 4

Criterion 5

Criterion 6

Criterion 7

Part Three: Treatment.?

The Ezel Project

Prosocial Language Teaching

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

References

Über Autor(innen)

Gerald, Jpb
JPB Gerald is an independent scholar of issues around language, race and neurodivergence (which he combines with work in a non-profit), based in New York, USA. He is the author of Antisocial Language Teaching (Multilingual Matters, 2022) and a book for K12 teachers Embracing the Exceptions (Routledge, 2025).

JPB Gerald is an adult educator and theorist, and a 2022 graduate of the EdD program in Instructional Leadership from CUNY – Hunter College, USA. Through his writing, teaching, podcast and his public scholarship overall, he seeks justice for the racially, linguistically and neurologically minoritized.