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… Who teaches the teachers? Analysing English Language Teacher Educators’ Subject Constitution at English Language Teaching Education Programs From my experience as bilingual advisor at Secretaria de Educación de Bogotá and professor at a master of education program, I have wondered whether there is a curriculum on ELT education that could be studied from national policies, from institutional initiatives at undergraduate careers, specifically at the programs of future English teachers or from the teaching practices carried out at the same programs. Can it be said that the national …
… Trans-Formation Perspectives in ELT Pre-service Teacher’s Formation The major incentive of this Doctoral proposal aroses after talking with some transgender students from university level; they mentioned have been mistreated by some teachers who apparently are not able to understand who they … such a necessary training, giving the proper attention and assistance to the students who suffer silently, without having at the present time an alternative other than hiding themselves inside the social precepts and doing what our colonialist …
… Collective Narrativizations of the experiences of pre-service English teachers and their transition to professional practice in the department of Huila This doctoral … context-sensitive model of teacher education that questions hierarchies and imported methodologies from the Global North. Findings show that initial English language teacher education, rather than being a purely technical process, is an … This doctoral research explores, from a critical and decolonial perspective, the experiences of a group of pre-service English teachers during their transition to professional practice in the Department of Huila, …
… ELT Colombian textbook writers struggles in the industry of ELT textbook production The purpose of this study is to uncover the struggles English language teaching textbook writers experienced in producing English … perspectives. In doing so, struggles against imperial practices can be experienced in which negotiations and tensions are at stake (Bhabha, 1994; Said, 1978). The analysis can also focus on the industry's preferences for expert ELT textbook … The purpose of this study is to uncover the struggles English language teaching textbook writers experienced in producing English …
… the EFL teachers' identities This study intends to document how critical pedagogy can be promoted in the formation of EFL student teachers (the B.A. program on Bilingual Education at Institución Universitaria Colombo Americana- Única) by resorting to the narratives of a diverse minority EFL teacher as input to contest the givens of bilingualism policies from the schooling system. The … This study intends to document how critical pedagogy can be promoted in the formation of EFL student teachers (the B.A. program on Bilingual Education at Institución Universitaria Colombo Americana- Única) by …
… for sensing, thinking, doing, and emotioning decolonially. This proposal attempts to disrupt modes (including my own) of existing, thinking, being, and doing in academia. To do so, it proposes and elaborates on Trans-Pedagogies as a decolonial … Trans-Pedagogies have always been there; in the bodies, sensibilities, subjectivities, doings, pains, and sufferings of those wounded by coloniality. These have been there, within the exteriority; an exteriority that means “border dwelling … through narrating and reflecting upon concrete decolonial doings and their configuration throughout an academic space at the Licenciatura level at Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas. Therefore, the readers will not find any applied …
… Unpacking future language teachers’ sense of communities from a knowledges otherwise perspective: decolonizing research on language teacher education in Colombia In … around modern concepts such as Target Communities (Higgins, 2012), Imagined Communities (Anderson, 1983), and Communities of Practice (Wenger, 1998; Wenger-Trayner, M. Fenton-O'Creevy, S. Hutchinson, Kubiak and Wenger-Trayner, B. (2015). Target … a joint construction between the research collaborators and myself. The research results show that their families, the university, the English Language Teacher Education Program (ELTEP), and the placement school, among others; are part of a …
… caused by world health related issues Teachers, students and the whole educative community are facing an abrupt shift of the educative system in terms of policies, didactics, methodologies due to a world health situation. Because of this world situation, the educative system … has been causing some physical, psychological and economic issues in both the learners and teachers. Everybody has to stay at home, as a matter of fact, classes must be taken at that place. For this reason, educative institutions which do not have …
… School This dissertation addresses the conversations between nineteen female preschool and primary homeroom teachers of a public school located in Ciudad Bolívar in southern of Bogotá, Colombia and me. We discussed childhood, teenage, education, and work having as a main topic English, its … avoid third, fourth, and fifth grades. Our learning and teaching trajectories allowed us to share our own epistemologies at five different levels: (i) we know our needs to teach and learn this language; (ii) we highlight the teachers’ qualities …
… English language teachers' experiences, who were located in different territories in Colombia, this inquiry aimed at coamplifying their experiences from their small voices. in this manner, the contribution of this study was not only conceptual or epistemological, but also methodological, since it problematized qualitative … relational to these teachers' hybrid bodies-selves. Some conclusions and derived implications are proposed in the form of some tribute to peace and praise to love. These ones suggest a gap to bridge, which have to do with further decisions and …