22 Reconsidering Roadside Assistance

Abstract:

I am pleased to see such a robust and open dialogue surrounding the elements of Christian language teaching, both within and beyond missionary application. I wish a similar debate would erupt in my own US “foreign” language discipline (see, e.g., Osborn, 2005, 2006; Smith & Osborn, 2006). I must also confess that I’m disappointed as to how we, as language educators, have failed to progress in our understanding of the contexts of language education involving those educated in the United States, both within and beyond the Christian settings. I suspect that, in large part, we scholars are also victims of understanding teaching as a technicist endeavor, one of merely following curricula and engineering outcomes. We are left with little by way of ability to conceptualize moral and ethical dimensions of teaching and, in an attempt to “Christianize” our endeavors, we default to merely adding a spiritual veneer on …

Año de publicación:

2009

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