Capital, Commodity, and English Language Teaching (Language, Society and Political Economy) by Simpson, William - 2022-07-28

New. Capital, Commodity, and English Language Teaching illustrates how the drive for profit in commercial ELT affects the manner in which language is taught. The book looks at education as a form of production, and asks how lessons are produced, and how the production of profit in addition to the production of the lesson affects the operation of educational institutions and their stakeholders. Simpson delivers a theoretically rigorous conception of capital and builds from this an investigation into how the circulation of capital for profit interrelates with the teaching of language. Simpson discusses ELT at both a global level, in discussion of the ELT industry in the UK, the US, Ireland, Canada, Japan, Spain, and transnationally online, as well as at a more local level, where finer detailed descriptions of the work-lives of those within the Japanese eikaiwa ELT industry are given. Drawing on a synthesis of Marxist and Bourdieusian theory, the book outlines a dialectical approach to understanding… Read More

Routledge, 2022. Paperback. New. 280 pages. 9.19x6.13x0.55 inches.

Paperback / softback. New.

Routledge, 2022. Paperback. New. 280 pages. 9.19x6.13x0.55 inches.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.