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Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction: Peons, Sopirs and Translanguagers; Multilingualism, Language Ideologies and the Call to Critical Reflexivity; A Problem with Ideologized Nomenclature and Non-neutral Terminology; Confronting Problems of Reductionism; Outline of Chapters; References; 2 Openness, Closedness and Institutional Change; Openness as a Desirable Human(izing) and Educational Disposition; Openness as a Necessary Condition for the Radical Reconfiguration of Knowledge and Culture; Postmethod Pedagogy and Implications for Openness and Closedness to Change
Second Language Acquisition Debates and Implications of Openness and ClosednessThe Difficulties of Changing from Cultural Disbelief to Cultural Belief; Cultural Disbelief Caricaturized and Parodied; Cultural Disbelief Monetized and Milked Through the Chic (Cheek) of Sales and Advertisement; The Difficult Shift to Cultural Belief and Examples of the Reflexive Self; Locality and the (Re)Assertion of Cultural Belief; TESOL as a Representation and Enactment of Closedness in English Teaching; Ways of Knowing, Openness, Closedness, Belief and Disbelief: A Summary; References
3 Oppression, Obscuration and IdeologyStandardization of Languages and Oppression; Demolishing the Façade by Calling Ideological Bluffs; Beyond the Interests of Supposed Beneficiaries; English for Academic Purposes or English for Institutional Survival; Alleged (or Actually) Faked Forms of Learner Autonomy in Language Learning; Reclaiming Humanity; References; 4 Japan and the (Cultural) Politics of (In)authenticity; Japanese Insularity and Homogeneity: In Historical Situ; Developments After World War II
Existential (and Educational) Struggles and the Disconnect Between Appearances and RealityNarratives of Imagination, Make-Belief or Fantasy as Strategic Obscurations of Reality; Status Quo, Incumbency and Change; Dissimulating Assimilation: Difference Suppressed Within a Plaster of Uniformity; Dissimulating Tokenism and Trivialization; Inauthenticity Within a Hyper-Reality That Belies Inauthenticity; Returning from Hyper-Reality to Face Real-Life Issues; Capturing Hyper-Realities and Reifications of Difference in Narrative; Institutions A and B as Symbols and Enactments of Japanese Presence
Preserving Japaneseness in an Overseas LocationThe Teaching and Learning of English at IB; 'Speaking in Japanese'; Enduring Japaneseness; Textbooks and School Excursions; Simulating Change, Dissimulating Intransigence (or Changing Without Changing); References; 5 English Teaching: Instantiations of Positivistic Forms of Convergence and Oppressiveness; English-Speaking Western TESOL, Professional Fixations and Alienation of the Other; A Deeply Professional Moment on Rationalizing Educator Behavior; Presentation One; Presentation Two
Second Language Acquisition Debates and Implications of Openness and ClosednessThe Difficulties of Changing from Cultural Disbelief to Cultural Belief; Cultural Disbelief Caricaturized and Parodied; Cultural Disbelief Monetized and Milked Through the Chic (Cheek) of Sales and Advertisement; The Difficult Shift to Cultural Belief and Examples of the Reflexive Self; Locality and the (Re)Assertion of Cultural Belief; TESOL as a Representation and Enactment of Closedness in English Teaching; Ways of Knowing, Openness, Closedness, Belief and Disbelief: A Summary; References
3 Oppression, Obscuration and IdeologyStandardization of Languages and Oppression; Demolishing the Façade by Calling Ideological Bluffs; Beyond the Interests of Supposed Beneficiaries; English for Academic Purposes or English for Institutional Survival; Alleged (or Actually) Faked Forms of Learner Autonomy in Language Learning; Reclaiming Humanity; References; 4 Japan and the (Cultural) Politics of (In)authenticity; Japanese Insularity and Homogeneity: In Historical Situ; Developments After World War II
Existential (and Educational) Struggles and the Disconnect Between Appearances and RealityNarratives of Imagination, Make-Belief or Fantasy as Strategic Obscurations of Reality; Status Quo, Incumbency and Change; Dissimulating Assimilation: Difference Suppressed Within a Plaster of Uniformity; Dissimulating Tokenism and Trivialization; Inauthenticity Within a Hyper-Reality That Belies Inauthenticity; Returning from Hyper-Reality to Face Real-Life Issues; Capturing Hyper-Realities and Reifications of Difference in Narrative; Institutions A and B as Symbols and Enactments of Japanese Presence
Preserving Japaneseness in an Overseas LocationThe Teaching and Learning of English at IB; 'Speaking in Japanese'; Enduring Japaneseness; Textbooks and School Excursions; Simulating Change, Dissimulating Intransigence (or Changing Without Changing); References; 5 English Teaching: Instantiations of Positivistic Forms of Convergence and Oppressiveness; English-Speaking Western TESOL, Professional Fixations and Alienation of the Other; A Deeply Professional Moment on Rationalizing Educator Behavior; Presentation One; Presentation Two