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Finally a book that offers a multi-pronged approach to EFL, through a detailed critical discourse analysis of language in education policies, textbooks and interviews with language learners. A must read for everyone interested in the global/local dynamics of English, particularly with a view to imagining a future of hope in a context of conflict. - Tommaso M. Milani, Professor of Multilingualism, University of Gothenburg Teaching and learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL) may be compromised by becoming a cultural discourse reproducing difference and inequality. Though this claim seems controversial, the author presents a comprehensive and critical summary of her experience with EFL in Israel, and proposes an alternative reconstruction, moving EFL towards a critical pedagogy, a transformative cultural discourse of harmony, social justice and peace. Making EFL a central component in the struggle for global citizenship education in the global system, the rigorous critique and reconstruction, makes this book by Muzna Awayed-Bishara a must read in studies of cultural discourses and teaching English as a foreign language. - Carlos Alberto Torres, Distinguished Professor of Education, UNESCO UCLA Chair on Global Learning and Global Citizenship Education

Finally a book that offers a multi-pronged approach to EFL, through a detailed critical discourse analysis of language in education policies, textbooks and interviews with language learners. A must read for everyone interested in the global/local dynamics of English, particularly with a view to imagining a future of hope in a context of conflict. - Tommaso M. Milani, Professor of Multilingualism, University of Gothenburg Teaching and learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL) may be compromised by becoming a cultural discourse reproducing difference and inequality. Though this claim seems controversial, the author presents a comprehensive and critical summary of her experience with EFL in Israel, and proposes an alternative reconstruction, moving EFL towards a critical pedagogy, a transformative cultural discourse of harmony, social justice and peace. Making EFL a central component in the struggle for global citizenship education in the global system, the rigorous critique and reconstruction, makes this book by Muzna Awayed-Bishara a must read in studies of cultural discourses and teaching English as a foreign language. - Carlos Alberto Torres, Distinguished Professor of Education, UNESCO UCLA Chair on Global Learning and Global Citizenship Education Finally a book that offers a multi-pronged approach to EFL, through a detailed critical discourse analysis of language in education policies, textbooks and interviews with language learners. A must read for everyone interested in the global/local dynamics of English, particularly with a view to imagining a future of hope in a context of conflict. - Tommaso M. Milani, Professor of Multilingualism, University of Gothenburg Teaching and learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL) may be compromised by becoming a cultural discourse reproducing difference and inequality. Though this claim seems controversial, the author presents a comprehensive and critical summary of her experience with EFL in Israel, and proposes an alternative reconstruction, moving EFL towards a critical pedagogy, a transformative cultural discourse of harmony, social justice and peace. Making EFL a central component in the struggle for global citizenship education in the global system, the rigorous critique and reconstruction, makes this book by Muzna Awayed-Bishara a must read in studies of cultural discourses and teaching English as a foreign language. - Carlos Alberto Torres, Distinguished Professor of Education, UNESCO UCLA Chair on Global Learning and Global Citizenship Education

""Finally a book that offers a multi-pronged approach to EFL, through a detailed critical discourse analysis of language in education policies, textbooks and interviews with language learners. A must read for everyone interested in the global/local dynamics of English, particularly with a view to imagining a future of hope in a context of conflict."" — Tommaso M. Milani, Professor of Multilingualism, University of Gothenburg ""Teaching and learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL) may be compromised by becoming a cultural discourse reproducing difference and inequality. Though this claim seems controversial, the author presents a comprehensive and critical summary of her experience with EFL in Israel, and proposes an alternative reconstruction, moving EFL towards a critical pedagogy, a transformative cultural discourse of harmony, social justice and peace. Making EFL a central component in the struggle for global citizenship education in the global system, the rigorous critique and reconstruction, makes this book by Muzna Awayed-Bishara a must read in studies of cultural discourses and teaching English as a foreign language."" — Carlos Alberto Torres, Distinguished Professor of Education, UNESCO UCLA Chair on Global Learning and Global Citizenship Education ""Finally a book that offers a multi-pronged approach to EFL, through a detailed critical discourse analysis of language in education policies, textbooks and interviews with language learners. A must read for everyone interested in the global/local dynamics of English, particularly with a view to imagining a future of hope in a context of conflict."" — Tommaso M. Milani, Professor of Multilingualism, University of Gothenburg ""Teaching and learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL) may be compromised by becoming a cultural discourse reproducing difference and inequality. Though this claim seems controversial, the author presents a comprehensive and critical summary of her experience with EFL in Israel, and proposes an alternative reconstruction, moving EFL towards a critical pedagogy, a transformative cultural discourse of harmony, social justice and peace. Making EFL a central component in the struggle for global citizenship education in the global system, the rigorous critique and reconstruction, makes this book by Muzna Awayed-Bishara a must read in studies of cultural discourses and teaching English as a foreign language."" — Carlos Alberto Torres, Distinguished Professor of Education, UNESCO UCLA Chair on Global Learning and Global Citizenship Education

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Muzna Awayed-Bishara received her doctorate from the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Haifa. She is currently a postdoctoral Fellow in the Centre for the Study of Multiculturalism and Diversity at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a tenured lecturer in the English Department at the Academic Arab College for Education in Haifa. Dr Awayed-Bishara is also currently a visiting scholar at the Paulo Freire Institute at the University of California in Los Angeles.

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