Exclusionary practices of English language teaching departments in Turkey: radical pedagogy, British colonialism and neoliberalism

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dc.contributor.authorOrdem, Eser
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-06T17:30:11Z
dc.date.available2025-01-06T17:30:11Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractThis study problematizes English language teaching departments (ELT) in Turkey that have ignored the importance of radical pedagogy, the history of British colonialism and neoliberalism in the curriculum because Orientalist, Occidentalist and neoliberal discourses have led to the exclusion of critical discourses in ELT in Turkey. Therefore, the possible reasons for the absence of some curricular topics present a complicated structural problem. Exclusionary practices of ELT departments can be ascribed to Turkey’s political regimes that have reinforced both nation-state ideology and Anglo-American neoliberal policies. The English language has also been reified as a gateway to westernization and globalization under the feeling of urgency and fear of falling behind. Therefore, the spread of English has been allowed in almost all spheres of life even if neglecting local, national and international languages has violated linguistic human rights. This paper proposes that the dominance of English can be deconstructed by including radical pedagogy and the history of British colonialism and neoliberalism into the curriculum and by prioritizing linguistic human rights to allow more space for the survival of other languages. © 2021 Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia.
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/00131857.2021.1888710
dc.identifier.endpage182
dc.identifier.issn0013-1857
dc.identifier.issue2
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85100946556
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1
dc.identifier.startpage170
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2021.1888710
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14669/1507
dc.identifier.volume54
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.relation.ispartofEducational Philosophy and Theory
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.snmzKA_20241211
dc.subjectBritish colonialism
dc.subjectEnglish language teaching curriculum
dc.subjectneoliberalism
dc.subjectoccidentalism
dc.subjectorientalism
dc.subjectradical pedagogy
dc.titleExclusionary practices of English language teaching departments in Turkey: radical pedagogy, British colonialism and neoliberalism
dc.typeArticle

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