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This book will appeal to language teachers who wish to instill critical thinking in their students, as well as teacher educators. Four case studies, authored by classroom teachers, illustrate the development of critical thinking in the foreign language classroom in primary and secondary school contexts in Argentina. Using a wide variety of data collected from their students, such as drawings, posters, conversations between students in the classroom, and leaflets, the studies illuminate neglected aspects of critical thinking, namely its citizenship and human rights dimensions, which involve imaginative, moral and ethical concerns. The book also presents three booklets for the classroom, free for download, designed in Argentina, and intended to develop these dimensions. Finally, there is a concrete proposal for teacher education. The volume contains a Foreword by Audrey Osler and Hugh Starkey.

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Melina Porto is a Researcher at the National Research Council in Argentina (CONICET), Professor at Universidad Nacional de La Plata, and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia. She holds an MA from Essex University (thesis supervised by H.G. Widdowson), a PhD from Universidad Nacional de La Plata (thesis supervised by Michael Byram), and a postdoctoral degree from Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires. She has published several books and articles in international journals such as Cambridge Journal of Education, Language and Intercultural Communication, Language Learning Journal, Language Teaching, Language Teaching Research, Language Culture and Curriculum and ELT Journal, amongst others. Her current projects focus on intercultural citizenship in the language classroom. Silvana Julieta Barboni is an ESOL Teacher and Registered Public Translator and a Senior Lecturer in ESOL Education and Teaching Practice at Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina. She holds an EdD from the Institute of Education of the University of London, where she also conducted postdoctoral research.

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