Teaching English for Reconciliation: Pursuing Peace through Transformed Relationships in Language Learning and Teaching
Ebook
Overview
Create Space in an English Class for Reconciliation.
How can an English class become a transformative space for both teachers and learners? When the teacher intentionally uses strategies and builds skills for peacebuilding and reconciliation, the classroom can be a place where relationships and communication transform people. This text encourages those engaged in the teaching of English as a second or foreign language to first consider why we might strive to teach English for reconciliation, and then addresses the contexts, individuals, and resources which are involved.
Introduction
Part 1: The Foundation: Why Teach English for Reconciliation?
Ch. 1: Teaching for Conflict Resolution, Peacebuilding and Reconciliation
Ch. 2: Intersections of Language Learning and Reconciliation
Ch. 3: A Framework for Christians Teaching English for Reconciliatio
Part 2: The People: Who is Involved in Teaching English for Reconciliation?
Ch. 4: Community
Ch. 5: Learners
Ch. 6: Teachers
Part 3: The Resources: How Can We Teach English for Reconciliation?
Ch. 7: Creating Curricula for Peace and Reconciliation
Ch. 8: Adapting Curricula for Peace and Reconciliation
Ch. 9: Suggestions for Diverse Settings
Part 4: Contextualize
Chapter 9: Contextualize the Gospel
Chapter 10: Contextualize Community
Chapter 11: Contextualize What You Teach
Appendices
Appendix A: Suggested Activities
Appendix B: Sample Forms and Plans
Appendix C: Resources
Figures
1. Three lenses of a teaching English within a reconciliation framework
2. Sources and domains of power
3. REAL activities in teaching English for reconciliation Reconciliatory English Teaching Framework
Dormer and Woelk’s well-informed, yet highly readable and practical book is an excellent introduction for any language teacher who wishes to help language learners discover how to interact more harmoniously with people from other groups and cultures, and even themselves become peacebuilders and agents of reconciliation. For Christians this book is particularly valuable as a guide to how the Christian peacemaking mandate can be incarnated and lived out in English language classrooms.
-Don Snow, PhD Language and Culture Center, Duke Kunshan University
This is a refreshing work that encompasses the possibilities of English Language Teaching to open doors that lead to true reconciliation and peacebuilding in the current landscape of hostility that is all too familiar to us in our current day.
-Laura Jacob, editor
- Title: Teaching English for Reconciliation: Pursuing Peace through Transformed Relationships in Language Learning and Teaching
- Authors: Jan Edwards Dormer, Cheryl Woelk
- Publisher: William Carey Library
- Print Publication Date: 2018
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Pages: 208
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9780878088980, 9780878085439, 0878085432, 0878088989
- Resource ID: LLS:9780878088980
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-06-17T07:49:13Z
Dr. Jan Dormer experienced language learning as an MK growing up in Brazil and as an adult serving in Indonesia. She adds to her own experiences a thirty-year career in TESOL and SAL, teaching language learners of all ages in many different contexts. She received an EdD in Language Education from the University of Toronto. Jan is the author of Teaching English in Missions and the co-author of Teaching English in Missions and Teaching English for Reconciliation. She is professor of TESOL in the graduate program at Messiah University. Jan loves to hear from readers, and can be contacted at jan.dormer@gmail.com.
Cheryl Woelk is a language instructor and peace educator, teaching and consulting in multicultural settings. She holds a BA in English, an MA in Education, and certificates in TESOL and Conflict Transformation. With roots in Saskatchewan, Canada, she teaches and coordinates the Language for Peace project from Seoul, South Korea.