Mandated Resistance, Embodied Shame: The Material and Affective Contours of a TESOL Method

Autor/in	Mathew, Leya
Titel	Mandated Resistance, Embodied Shame: The Material and Affective Contours of a TESOL Method
Quelle	In: TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 52 (2018) 4, S.748-771 (24 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0039-8322
DOI	10.1002/tesq.420
Schlagwörter	English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Teaching Methods; Educational Change; Ethnography; Material Development; Literacy; Educational Quality; Foreign Countries; Disadvantaged; Indigenous Knowledge; Foreign Policy; Language Variation; Instructional Materials; India + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Bildungsreform; Ethnografie; Lehrmaterialentwicklung; Alphabetisierung; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Ausland; Außenpolitik; Sprachenvielfalt; Lehrmaterial; Lehrmittel; Unterrichtsmedien; Indien
Abstract	This article examines how a purportedly local, postcolonial reform effort to resist center-based methods is resisted by the students and teachers it seeks to serve. In this context, rather than take center and periphery for granted, the author attempts a processual geography of method. Drawing on data from a 19-month ethnography in the Indian state of Kerala, the author first traces the materials production process and reifications of resistance to argue that method produces centers. Specifically, privileged actors rearranged the terms of recognition from literacy to orality to resist supposedly structural, behaviorist pedagogies but in effect mandated resistance to locally available literacy resources. Then, foregrounding the "quality of classroom life" (Kumaravadivelu, 2006a) under reform conditions, the author witnesses diverse regimes of shame. Kumaravadivelu (2006b) distinguishes methods ("established methods conceptualized and constructed by experts") from methodologies ("what practicing teachers actually do in the classroom" to achieve their teaching objectives, p. 84). Because the material and affective registers of classroom life emerged as crucial domains of experience, the author attempts an intersectional analysis that foregrounds the material (Block, 2015; Ramanathan, 2008) in conjunction with that of the affective (Motha & Lin, 2013). Ethnographic attention to the "schema of agents, levels, and processes" (Ricento & Hornberger, 1996, p. 408) entailed in the production and consumption of a method illuminates the multiple and complex ways in which marginality is engendered and lived. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01