ERIC Number: EJ1379651
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 20
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ISSN: ISSN-0142-5692
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'Race Had Never Been an Issue': Examining White Supremacy in English Language Teaching
British Journal of Sociology of Education, v44 n2 p201-219 2023
This paper explores the ways in which white monolingual and monocultural English teachers articulate racial issues and conceptualise the racial identities of multiply-marginalised students in the classroom context. Drawing on the work of Charles Mills, this contribution aligns with an understanding of white supremacy as a means to historically dispossess, assimilate, and eliminate negatively racialized and language-minoritized communities, through mechanisms of Western settler-colonial hegemony and English language teaching. The authors present a qualitative case study of discursive practices of white English language educators who, despite their intentions to be inclusive, often (re)produce white supremacist values, language, and knowledges. Finally, this paper supports a more critical approach to the field of English language teaching, which recognizes and contends with whiteness and white supremacy in the co-construction of negatively-racialized and language-minoritized identities.
Descriptors: White Teachers, Language Teachers, Power Structure, Advantaged, Race, Monolingualism, Racial Identification, Minority Group Students, Critical Theory, English, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Student Relationship, Language Minorities, English Language Learners, Educational Strategies
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