CRITICAL PEDAGOGIES AND LANGUAGE LEARNING

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CRITICAL PEDAGOGIES AND LANGUAGE LEARNING. Bonny Norton and Kelleen Toohey (Eds.). New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xiii + 362. $77.00 cloth, $28.00 paper.

Language is not simply communication; rather, it is a practice that constructs the ways language learners understand themselves and their social surroundings. This collection assembles the work of 22 scholars interested in critical perspectives on language education in different sites of practice. They investigate how social relationships and issues of power are centrally important in developing critical language education pedagogies.