Full Description
The Routledge Handbook of Language Education and Social Change provides a comprehensive, global examination of the role language education plays in fostering positive societal transformation.
As the world becomes increasingly interconnected and divided through globalization, migration, displacement, artificial intelligence, and digital communication, language education needs to be more systematically explored and problematized as a key tool in promoting critical intercultural understanding, equity, and social justice in and beyond the classroom. This handbook examines how language education, when seen through a global lens, can be leveraged to better identify and address critical social issues, reduce inequalities, and empower marginalized communities. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives from fields such as applied linguistics, education, sociology, and media and cultural studies, the handbook offers theoretical, empirical, and practical insights into how situated initiatives in language education can and have contributed to progressive social change. By bringing together leading and emerging scholars, this volume makes a significant contribution to ongoing debates about the role of language education in fostering more equitable and inclusive societies.
This handbook is an invaluable resource for researchers, language educators, policymakers, and post-graduate students in fields such as applied linguistics, language education, TESOL, and sociology.
Contents
What does social change mean? Mapping perspectives for language education
Part 1: Theoretical foundations of language education and social change
1. Critical pedagogies in language education for social change: Evolution, application, and prospects
2. Critical language pedagogies and social change: Key concepts, current challenges and future directions
3. Plurilingualism and complexity: A synergy for social change in language education
4. Initiating social change: Towards an intersectional critical language pedagogy in the language classroom
5. Is your language classroom political? Do you discuss 'money'? Embracing disorientation for social change in language and intercultural education
Part 2: Language education and social justice movements
6. Silencing the invisibility of immigrant learners: Beyond a single (issue) story for language education and social justice
7. Migrant language education and social justice: A recognition-based approach
8. Linguistic discrimination and English as an additional language or dialect education: Accentism
9. The criticality and the decolonizing space in anti-oppressive language education
10. Feminist pedagogy for social change: Where we are now
Part 3: Language, identity, and empowerment
11. Empowering multilingual learners in the digital age: The interplay of language, identity, agency, and technology
12. Translanguaging as praxis: Reimagining identity and agency in language education for minoritized communities
13. Heritage language education and social change: Prioritizing identity and agency for minoritized individuals and communities
14. Language learning among adult refugees: Marginalization, empowerment, and imagined Identities
15. Gatekeeper or gateway: Language-in-education policies for equitable multilingual education and social change
16. Reimagining language teacher education as a site for social change: The intersection of identity, ideology, and capital
Part 4: Pedagogies for social change
17. Reconceptualizing language education: Critically conscious and culturally responsive pedagogies as catalysts for social transformation
18. Crip translingualism, language education, and social change
19. Compassion-based language education for social change
20. Designing learning and learning as design: Pedagogical and social change for the digital age
21. Artificial intelligence and social change in language education
22. Fostering linguistic and cultural responsiveness: Service-learning in (language) teacher education
Part 5: Case studies in language education and social change
23. Promoting English language learners' motivation and social issues engagement through Content and Language Integrated Learning
24. Intercultural bilingual education and Indigenous language revitalization in Chile: Early childhood, Mapuzungun, and land-based community practices
25. Language education and social change: The case of the project Inglês Made in Favela in Brazil
26. Indigenizing language education through school-community collaborations: Wayuu People's resistance to coloniality
27. Toward a politics of care in language education: A case study of an equity-oriented two-way bilingual education program
28. The language of instruction: Prospects and constraints for social change in view of Sustainable Development Goals from a Tanzanian perspective
Part 6: Future directions in language education for social change
29. Transforming language learning: The socioeconomic and pedagogical impact of generative AI
30. Beyond lingua franca: Navigating critical perspectives on the global spread of English and social change in a transnational world
31. Critical, multidimensional and contextualized didactic planning abilities to engage teachers with plurilingual and pluricultural mindsets and social change when applying "universalized" notions such as diversity and inclusion
32. Black language has no nations: A global call for Black linguistic justice and solidarity in Black language education
33. Refiguring the human in applied linguistics: Emerging directions in language education
34. Multilingual education for social change: Perils, prospects, and pathways
