(Re) locating TESOL in an Age of Empire (Language and Globalization)

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Are TESOL professionals now fairly seen as agents of a new English-speaking empire? Or, if they wish to distance themselves from this role, are there ways of working and living that would make this differentiation clear? An international group of authors put forward their differing proposals for the development of TESOL in a world where military invasion and occupation have been added to the previous mix of globalized economic hegemony and cultural influence exercised by the US and its allies.

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JULIAN EDGE is a Lecturer at the University of Manchester, UK, and has worked as an ESOL teacher, teacher educator, researcher and research director in Europe, the Middle East, South East Asia and Australia. His main interest is in teacher development, personal and professional. Among his key publications is Continuing Cooperative Development (2002).