Full Description
This book examines how a colonial matrix of power is established through temporality in English writing education. It offers discourse analyses of higher educational policies that operate in China and Saudi Arabia and then triangulates this data with conversations with writing teachers from representative Chinese and Saudi universities. Drawing on all this data to understand both the structured power relations shaping educational policies and the attendant effects on the writing teachers that inhabit these spaces, the book develops a decolonial comparative method and adopts the concept of "temporal regime" as an analytic lens. It not only attends to the complex and multilayered ways that this regime controls, disciplines and shapes the social wellbeing and professional practices of individual writing teachers, but it also details the various ways that teachers understand, experience, resist, negotiate and appropriate the temporal orders.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Coloniality of English Writing Education
Chapter 2. Colonial and Neoliberal Temporalities in Higher Education
Chapter 3. Studying Temporalities in Decoloniality and Globalization
Chapter 4. Time in Institutional Discourses of English Education
Chapter 5. Living the Educational Temporalities in Saudi Universities
Chapter 6. Wrestling with Temporal Regimes in Chinese Universities
Chapter 7. Teaching EFL Writing Otherwise: Cross-National Dialogues
Futureword: Delinking and Relinking in a Multipolar World
Appendix: Conversation Guidelines
References
Index
