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@Kall_It_A_Day Oh, sure... but it's not like there's a tremendous amount of space in the curriculum, *and* I will also say that it often matters letter what most teachers think than what the most senior, older teacher in their department things. A story:On twitter.com
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@Kall_It_A_Day A friend of mine studied TEFL hard, studied English hard, was committed to task-based, practice-centered learning. Got a job teaching. Was ostracized by all the other English teachers for—wait for it—speaking to her students in English in class.Permalink On twitter.com
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@Kall_It_A_Day There was a sort of, "You think you're better than us?" type vibe to it. While new, she also was basically forced to be the new foreign English teacher's guide to everything because other English teachers REFUSED to acknowledge his presence, let alone speak to him in English.Permalink On twitter.com
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@Kall_It_A_Day Which is just to say, if there were a certain amount of inertia in terms of this kind of change to curriculum happening, it would surprise me not at all. I mean, also: I've known older people who were well-meaning and nice but also pretty passively racist.Permalink On twitter.com
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@Kall_It_A_Day (Which, I mean, back home too: tasking such people with educating the young on anti-racism usually goes... less well than hoped.) (Again, in the thread I linked, I mention the notorious cultural—not necessarily political—conservativism among teachers here.)Permalink On twitter.com