ERIC Number: EJ1368535
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Publication Date: 2023-Mar
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Creating Anti-Oppressive Digital Spaces for Social Justice Language Education
OrtaƧtepe Hart, Deniz
TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, v57 n1 p285-297 Mar 2023
Contemporary moves towards social justice education and digital pedagogies require language educators to examine the ways digital learning platforms reinforce economic, social, and cultural inequities, and to explore how to instead offer anti-oppressive pedagogies for diverse online communities. In this Teaching Issues essay, I draw from the principles of critical pedagogy to argue that non-linear, non-modular and multimodal digital learning platforms created on content-management systems (CMS) can provide anti-oppressive pedagogical affordances for 1) dismantling teacher-student power relations, 2) cultivating a sense of a digital learning community, and 3) promoting intersectionality within language teacher education programs. Next, I present a discussion of the challenges involved in designing an anti-oppressive, transformative digital learning space, and of several critical questions teacher educators can reflect upon while designing their own virtual environments.
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Social Justice, Electronic Learning, Diversity, Power Structure, Individual Power, Disadvantaged, Social Discrimination, Teacher Student Relationship, Sense of Community, Intersectionality, Teacher Educators, Educational Technology, Instructional Design
Wiley. Available from: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030. Tel: 800-835-6770; e-mail: cs-journals@wiley.com; Web site: https://www-wiley-com.bibliotheek.ehb.be/en-us
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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