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    "pk": 2086,
    "title": "Translations and Paradoxes of ‘Western’ Pedagogy: Perspectives of English Language Teachers in a Chinese College",
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    "abstract": "This paper engages the perspectives of teachers working in an English language department of a vocational college in China. It takes a transdisciplinary approach, applying constructs from the fields of comparative education, postcolonial theories in education, and critical applied linguistics to a case study of English language teaching; while the study assumes somewhat one-way flows of ‘best practices’ from ‘West’ to ‘East,’ it maintains a postcolonial skepticism of the East-West binary and of essentialist notions of culture and progressive education. Specifically, it situates the shifting conditions and practices of so-called Western pedagogies in China under heightened transnationalism and illuminates how these pedagogies are interpreted and translated by six English language instructors at a third tier college. It finds that the pressure to adopt Western, progressive approaches is both top-down and bottom up, that Chinese teachers have fairly consistent understandings of progressive modes, that they adopt Western approaches somewhat sporadically, and that, in practice, Western pedagogy presents a set of paradoxes for teachers and learners.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": null,
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "educational transfer, Western pedagogy, English language teaching, internationalization of higher education, best practices, postcolonial theory, transnationalism, China"
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        {
            "first_name": "Xi",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Wu",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Western University",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Paul",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Tarc",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Western University",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2016-02-29T19:25:25+01:00",
    "date_accepted": "2016-02-29T19:25:25+01:00",
    "date_published": "2016-12-07T03:06:04+01:00",
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