Ethical Issues for Esl Faculty: Social Justice in Practice

by Johnnie Johnson Hafernik, Dorothy S. Messerschmitt, Stephanie Vandrick

Book Overview

This book explicitly addresses ethical dilemmas and issues that post-secondary ESL faculty commonly encounter and examines them in the framework of social justice concerns. Ethics is defined broadly, to include responsibilities and obligations to students inside and outside the classroom, as well to colleagues, educational institutions, the TESL profession, and society as a whole.

Scenarios in each chapter provide realistic and compelling...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805840281
• ISBN13: 9780805840285
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A Practical Primer for ESL/EFL Teachers, Administrators

I stumbled upon this thin primer crammed with realistic case studies while collecting materials to lead teacher training workshops. Consider me impressed on multiple levels - even though I tend to view the authors as more ideological than practical. Ethics, in fact, plays far less a role in actual decision making process in many private language schools than ideal. The authors, however, envision a different, better world where money and status issues play little role and the entire school is committed to spreading social justice. This paradigm works better in public schools and in the United States than in some other teaching environments. Still, the authors manage to compile several fascinating case studies that English language trainers, ESL teachers, department heads, and language school administrators can use in workshops. The book can also be used to help a decision-maker understand and reflect upon classroom dilemmas. Finally, the title alone provides a gentle reminder that ethics should matter in ESL classrooms around the world.