Lesson: Impossible - An Exploration of Educational Innovation
Aviva Levin
81 episodes
4 months ago
Your lesson, should you choose to accept it, is to strengthen your practice through interviews with fellow educators who are exploring new ways to teach languages, revisiting previously held assumptions and enriching their classroom or school culture.
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Your lesson, should you choose to accept it, is to strengthen your practice through interviews with fellow educators who are exploring new ways to teach languages, revisiting previously held assumptions and enriching their classroom or school culture.
Agent Julia Spiegelman (Challenging Language Textbooks)
Lesson: Impossible - An Exploration of Educational Innovation
41 minutes 57 seconds
3 years ago
Agent Julia Spiegelman (Challenging Language Textbooks)
Your lesson, should you choose to accept it, is to critically examine how language textbooks perpetuate colonialism. The special agent assigned to help you with this task is Julia Spiegelman, a PhD Candidate at UMass Boston.
In our conversation we discuss:
1️⃣ How language textbooks position students as traveling consumers
2️⃣ Confronting linguistic prescriptivism and the idea of the textbook as the objective truth
3️⃣ Using the textbook to subvert the colonial narrative
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Lesson: Impossible - An Exploration of Educational Innovation
Your lesson, should you choose to accept it, is to strengthen your practice through interviews with fellow educators who are exploring new ways to teach languages, revisiting previously held assumptions and enriching their classroom or school culture.
