Description: Arguing technicism fixates on methods and techniques at the expense of larger social issues in education, this book advocates a critical and liberal approach to teacher education through examples from the author's studies with critical teacher education within the limiting spa...
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"I strongly recommend this book to teachers who teach English as a second language as well as other subject teachers interested in transformative teaching and anyone who wants to know about Turkish Educational system." --Rifat Okçabol, Bogaziçi University
"In this thought-provocative work, Yasemin Tezgiden Cakcak skillfully destabilizes our inherent assumptions about the link between English language teaching and teacher education by resituating a complex myriad of issues in a broader sociopolitical context...A transformative intellectual experience for those who seek alternatives to blind practices propagated by neoliberal policies, and forge counter-hegemonic spaces and pathways towards a critical English language teaching and teacher education." --Ali Fuad Selvi, Middle East Technical University, Northern Cyprus Campus