Transformative World Language Learning: An Approach for Environmental and Cultural Sustainability and Economic and Political Security

Autor/in	Goulah, Jason
Titel	Transformative World Language Learning: An Approach for Environmental and Cultural Sustainability and Economic and Political Security
Quelle	In: Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 4 (2008) 1, S.6-23 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1559-9035
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Higher Education; Second Language Learning; Cultural Education; Sustainability; Environmental Influences; Economic Factors; Political Issues; National Security; Quality of Life; Religious Factors; Transformative Learning; Japanese; Semitic Languages + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Culture; Education; Kulturelle Bildung; Kulturelle Erziehung; Nachhaltigkeit; Environmental influence; Umwelteinfluss; Ökonomischer Faktor; Politischer Faktor; National territory; Security; Staatsgebiet; Sicherheit; Lebensqualität; Pädagogische Transformation; Japaner; Japanisch; Arabisch; Hebräisch
Abstract	In this article, the author responds to the Modern Language Association's report, "Foreign Languages and Higher Education: New Structures for a Changed World" (2007) by arguing for an explicit and interdisciplinary transformative world language learning approach toward environmental and cultural sustainability and economic and political security. Specifically, transformative world language learning incorporates a new cosmology, ecological selfhood, understanding of quality of life issues, and spirituality as key curricular content objectives to foster transformed attitudes and actions from those currently developed by a national language "policy" promulgated by militarism, monetarism, and materialism. The author also offers recommendations for higher education to take a leadership role in effecting a transformative world language learning approach. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of Georgia. 315 Aderhold Hall, Athens, GA 30602. Tel: 706-542-7866; Fax: 706-542-3817; e-mail: jolle@uga.edu; Web site: http://jolle.coe.uga.edu
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01