Cultural Globalization and Language Education
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B. Kumaravadivelu
Kumaravadivelu examines in detail how the cultural component of second- and foreign-language education has been informed by the Western notions of cultural assimilation, cultural pluralism, and cultural hybridity. Drawing insights from international and interdisciplinary sources, he argues that they have only a limited and limiting relevance to language education in the era of cultural globalization.
Grounded in Western as well as non-Western perspectives, and written in an easily accessible style that combines personal narrative and academic genre, this book is indispensable for graduate students, practicing teachers, teacher educators, researchers, and others who are interested in exploring the complexity of cultural globalization and language education.
"Kumaravadivelu makes a new and necessary contribution to our knowledge of intercultural issues. In an unprecedented manner, the nature of culture and its place in language education is set against the complex politics of cultural globalization. He succeeds in presenting a powerful critique of the standard ways in which the language teaching profession has reduced the foreign Other. A broadly inter-disciplinary approach and the use of his personal experience as a multicultural migrant enables him to put aside the narrow definitions that have inhibited true cultural sensitivity." —Adrian Holliday, Canterbury Church University, Canterbury, England
Publication Date: August 28, 2007
8 b/w illus.