TESOL and Sustainability: English Language Teaching in the Anthropocene Era (Bloomsbury Advances in Ecolinguistics)

"In the burgeoning field of ecolinguistics, little attention has been given to the ways in which English language teaching is and has become implicated in global ecological crises. This book begins a dialogue about the opportunities and responsibilities presented to the TESOL field to re-orient professional practice in ways that drive cultural change and engender alternate language practices and metaphors. Covering a diverse range of topics, including anthropogenic climate change, habitat loss, food insecurity and mass migration, chapters argue that such crises require not only technological innovation, but also cultural changes in how human beings relate to each other and their environment. Arguing that it is incumbent upon the field of English language teaching to reckon with such cultural changes in how and what we teach, TESOL and Sustainability addresses the ways in which discourses such as eco-pedagogy, the critique of neo-liberalism, non-Western philosophy and post-humanist thought can and must inform how and what is taught in ESL and EFL classrooms."-- Provided by publisher Cover Contents List of Illustrations List of Contributors Foreword by Suresh Canagarajah Introduction: TESOL and Sustainability John Katunich and Jason Goulah Part 1 Foundations for Sustainability in TESOL: Cultural Perspectives, Products, and Practices 1 Earth Democracy as Empowerment for TESOL Students and Educators: Though the Crisis Speaks English, englishes Can Become a Commons Language of Sustainability M. Garrett Delavan 2 Reorienting Language as a Commons: Dispositions for English Language Teaching in the “Second Watershed” John Katunich 3 Post-Truth Pedagogy for TESOL: Our Collective Responsibility for the Two-Legged,the Four-Legged, the Flyers, the Swimmers, the Multi-Legged, and the Stationary Sandra Kouritzin Part 2 Climate Change and Place as TESOL Curriculum and Pedagogy 4 TESOL into the Anthropocene: Climate Migration as Curriculum and Pedagogy in ESL Jason Goulah 5 A Place-Based Ecopedagogy for an English for Academic Purposes Program Kevin Eyraud 6 Greenspeak in Tourism Encounters and Implications for Sustainable TESOL Bal Krishna Sharma 7 Saving the World without (Eco)Justice? English-Language Voluntourism, Rural Education, and Root Metaphors of Success Cori Jakubiak Alan Hastings Coda: The Incommensurability of English Language Pedagog[uer]y and Sustainability— Spirits and Protein Satoru Nakagawa Index