Christian Faith And English Language Teaching And Learning

Author : Mary Shepard Wong
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415898951
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christian Faith and English Language Teaching and Learning written by Mary Shepard Wong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the possible role and impact of teachers' and students' faith in the English language classroom.

Author : Mary Shepard Wong
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135837848
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christian and Critical English Language Educators in Dialogue written by Mary Shepard Wong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-06-25 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Bradley Baurain
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443887641
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Faith and Teacher Knowledge in English Language Teaching written by Bradley Baurain and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) stands at an active crossroads – issues of language, culture, learning, identity, morality, and spirituality mix daily in classrooms around the world. What roles might teachers’ personal religious beliefs play in their professional activities and contexts? Until recently, such questions had been largely excluded from academic conversations in TESOL. Yet the qualitative research at the core of this book, framed and presented within a teacher knowledge paradigm, demonstrates that personal faith and professional identities and practices can, and do, interact and interrelate in ways that are both meaningful and problematic. This study’s Christian TESOL teacher participants, working overseas in Southeast Asia, perceived, explained, and interpreted a variety of such connections within their lived experience. As a result, the beliefs-practices nexus deserves to be further theorized, researched, and discussed. Religious beliefs and human spirituality, as foundational and enduring aspects of human thought and culture, and thus of teaching and learning, deserve a place at the TESOL table.

Author : Mary Shepard Wong
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1788921550
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spirituality and English Language Teaching written by Mary Shepard Wong and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 16 reflective accounts and data-driven studies explores the interrelationship of religious identity and English Language Teaching (ELT). The chapters broaden a topic which has traditionally focused on Christianity by including Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim and non-religious perspectives. They address the ways in which faith and ELT intersect in the realms of teacher identity, pedagogy and the context and content of ELT, and explore a diverse range of geographical contexts, making use of a number of different research methodologies. The book will be of particular interest to researchers in TESOL and EFL, as well as teachers and teacher trainers.

Author : Trevor Cooling
Publisher : Religion, Education and Values
ISBN 13 : 9783034319386
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christian Faith in English Church Schools written by Trevor Cooling and published by Religion, Education and Values. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the account of a qualitative research project investigating the experiences of teachers in English church schools implementing the new pedagogical approach What If Learning. The findings of the project are significant for all those involved in church school education and point towards new ways of thinking about Christian faith and learning.

Author : David S. Dockery
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1433673118
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faith and Learning written by David S. Dockery and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2012 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two dozen Christian higher education professionals thoroughly explore the question of the faith's place on the university campus, whether in administrative matters, the broader academic world, or in student life.

Author : David Smith
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802866859
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teaching and Christian Practices written by David Smith and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-10 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Teaching and Christian Practices several university professors describe and reflect on their efforts to allow historic Christian practices to reshape and redirect their pedagogical strategies. Whether allowing spiritually formative reading to enhance a literature course, employing table fellowship and shared meals to reinforce concepts in a pre-nursing nutrition course, or using Christian hermeneutical practices to interpret data in an economics course, these teacher-authors envision ways of teaching and learning that are rooted in the rich tradition of Christian practices, as together they reconceive classrooms and laboratories as vital arenas for faith and spiritual growth.

Author : David I. Smith
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1607525860
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spirituality, Social Justice and Language Learning written by David I. Smith and published by IAP. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets out to explore the intersections between matters not frequently yoked in academic discussions: spirituality, social justice, and the learning of world languages. The contributing authors contend not only that these intersections exist, but that they are the site of issues and realities that require the attention of language educators and point to avenues of growth for the language teaching profession. The essays included seek to indicate the possibilities of a neglected area of inquiry, not only in terms of theory but also in terms of the practices of language education. Given this aim of opening up fresh questions, the book is arranged so as to show the relevance of the nexus of spirituality and social justice to teacher education (chapters 3 and 4), language classroom practices (chapters 5 and 6), and the theoretical sources that inform scholarly discussion of language education (chapters 7 and 8). The opening chapters place these explorations in a larger context by showing how they fit into existing social contexts and academic discussions.

Author : David I. Smith
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467450642
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Christian Teaching written by David I. Smith and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-28 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian teachers have long been thinking about what content to teach, but little scholarship has been devoted to how faith forms the actual process of teaching. Is there a way to go beyond Christian perspectives on the subject matter and think about the teaching itself as Christian? In this book David I. Smith shows how faith can and should play a critical role in shaping pedagogy and the learning experience.

Author : Cheri L. Pierson
Publisher : Langham Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783683112
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thinking Theologically about Language Teaching written by Cheri L. Pierson and published by Langham Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christians can often overlook the need to bring their daily vocations in accord with the reality created, sustained, and purposed through Christ. This is no less true for language teachers, who find themselves at a difficult interdisciplinary crossroads where the paths of linguistics, culture and education merge. This challenge should not discourage these educators, but instead aid them in their journey to form a pedagogy rooted in theological truths from Scripture, one that provides a nuanced approach that glorifies God in a manner specific to the language classroom. The contributors of this book outline why and how theology must inform teaching methods so that Christian language educators might better serve their students with both faith and excellence, thereby pointing them to the communicative God whose image they bear.