Changing Discourse of Identity in the 'Global
John Kullman

Education and Discourse of Identity

Globalizing Discourses of
Identity in ELT

Exploring Identity frames and Discourses of Identity

Increasing Centrality of Learners

Personality and Personal Qualities

Lifestyle

Explaining changing
Discourses of Identity

Learner 'self-direction' for 'learner-centeredness'


and 'autonomy' for 'personalization'

Great impact on course book design

  • emphasis on personality and personal
    characteristics of learners. (Indivindualism)

'Assertiveness', cross cultural social
psychology even I contexts

Vital and self-conscious identify
(seen not in behavior, but in the
ability to keep on "stories")

Recurring theme of the course book
and first unit.

Learners see differences between
them and others

Useful language

'Speakout' a series of journals, main
context is lifestyle and discussion
on 'ideal possessions'

Focus on 'improvement' of lifestyle

Diagrammatic representation of
'life stories"

Description of own and others'
personal qualities

General description of character
traits and behavior in common settings

1980-1990s 'healthy lifestyle
practices'

In series of Speakout emphasis
on emotions and thearapy

Discourses of Identity and consumerism
became an important feature of global coursebooks
produced in the UK

Appropriate 'advanced and
'context-based' methods evolve

Norton Pierce (1995:26)
'"The lived experiences and social
identities of learners need to be
incorporated into curriculum"

Allow learners to detach from the
ideology of coursebooks and create
suitable for them subjectivites and identities

"Knowledge" in various contexts
and representation of it curricula

"Recontextualization" means shift of
subject-matter content into 'vertical and horizontal discourses'

Vertical discourse is systematically
principled forms.

Horizontal discourse everyday and
common-sense structures

"Coursebooks are creatures of their own
communities" Hyland 2000:108