English Teachers’ Sites in the Diverse Lands of Peace

ELT Local Research Agendas II

Peace-building and peace education: Each seems to respond to diverse ways of thinking about, feeling and resisting some phenomena in the world. Those phenomena in turn may also involve violent situations in a country like Colombia, where not only armed conflict but other types of violence (structural, indirect ones) may permeate society, including its educational environment. According to Hurie (2018), since 1948 Colombian schools have become scenarios for avoiding violence and working towards peace (Chaux et al., 2008), places where teachers respond to this challenge by finding many ways to shape their pedagogical initiatives on the basis of their experience of life. Personally, as a Colombian contributor to peace at schools who is also a woman, bilingual English teacher, mestiza and member of this doctoral program, I have found that English language teachers contest peace-building frames (modern ones) through peace construction (local and alternative frames).

I will now elaborate on that statement by addressing its key and interconnected components. To do that, I explain how I used an eclectic (Navarrete, 2009) and flexible path to arrive at that conclusion. In line with this metaphor of a journey, I divide what follows into sections which I call landscapes.

Datos
Titulo: 
English Teachers’ Sites in the Diverse Lands of Peace
Autor(es): 
Yeraldine Aldana Gutiérrez
Titulo del Libro: 
ELT Local Research Agendas II
Pais: 
Colombia
Editorial: 
Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas
ISBN: 
978-958-787-289-7
Paginas: 
75-100
Año: 
2021