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Canagarajah – Resisting Linguistic Imperialism in English Teaching

Canagarajah, Suresh. Resisting Linguistic Imperialism in English Teaching. Oxford Applied Linguistics;. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Print. This publication comes out of a series dedicated to language educators’ stories of their L2 literacy experiences. This work is an in-depth case study of the everyday language engagements both inside and outside the classroom of a community of Tamils living in a post-colonial context. On method: ... Read More

CCR601 – FP – 3rd Gen – Lather

Lather, Patti. “Research as Praxis.” Harvard Education Review 56 (1986): 257-77. The primary goal of this essay is to involve researchers in the democratized process of research that emphasizes negotiation, reciprocity, and empowerment in the interest of the researched subjects – something of a Frierian emancipatory research as practice. The writer draws on feminist, neo-Marxist critical ethnography, and Frierian participatory research to create... Read More

CCR691 – Ethnography Ch. 2 Horner – For Comment

Horner, Bruce. “Critical Ethnography, Ethics, and Work:  Rearticulating Labor.” Ethnography Unbound:  From Theory Shock to Critical Praxis. Ed. Stephen Gilbert Brown. Albany: SUNY Press, 2004. 13-34. Main Claims/Executive Summary In this chapter Horner advances the argument that critical ethnography’s approach to collaboration, multivocality, and self-reflexivity have been steps in the right direction to distance ethnography from... Read More