Representations of the World in Language Textbooks - Karen Risager

Representations of the World in Language Textbooks

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Buch | Softcover
264 Seiten
2018
Multilingual Matters (Verlag)
978-1-78309-954-2 (ISBN)
43,55 inkl. MwSt
This book presents a new and comprehensive framework for the analysis of representations of culture, society and the world in textbooks for foreign and second language learning. It points to the need for language learning materials to deal seriously with knowledge about the world, including its diversities and problems.
This book presents a new and comprehensive framework for the analysis of representations of culture, society and the world in textbooks for foreign and second language learning. The framework is transferable to other kinds of learning materials and to other subjects. The framework distinguishes between five approaches: national studies, citizenship education studies, cultural studies, postcolonial studies and transnational studies. In a series of concrete analyses, the book illustrates how one can describe and uncover representations of the world in textbooks for English, German, French, Spanish, Danish and Esperanto. Each analysis is accompanied by suggestions of possible supplements and changes. The book points to the need for language learning materials to deal seriously with knowledge about the world, including its diversities and problems.

Karen Risager is Professor Emerita in Cultural Encounters at Roskilde University, Denmark. She is the author of Language and Culture Pedagogy: From a National to a Transnational Paradigm (Multilingual Matters, 2007).

Preface



Chapter 1. Representations of the World



Chapter 2. Culture in Textbook Analyses around the World



Chapter 3. National Studies



Chapter 4. Citizenship Education Studies



Chapter 5. Cultural Studies



Chapter 6. Postcolonial Studies



Chapter 7. Transnational Studies



Conclusion



Appendix 1: Textbooks Selected



Appendix 2: Survey Corpus



Appendix 3: List of Photos from Textbooks



References



Author Index



Subject Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education
Verlagsort Bristol
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 410 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulpädagogik / Grundschule
ISBN-10 1-78309-954-2 / 1783099542
ISBN-13 978-1-78309-954-2 / 9781783099542
Zustand Neuware
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