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JOURNAL OF HIGHER EDUCATION THEORY AND PRACTICE 


EFL Pre-Service & In-Service Teachers as Agents of Change: Enhancing Social Justice
Practices in a Colombian Public University


Author(s): Nancy Emilce Carvajal Medina

Citation: Nancy Emilce Carvajal Medina, (2020) "EFL Pre-Service & In-Service Teachers as Agents of Change: Enhancing Social Justice Practices in a Colombian Public University," Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice, Vol. 20, ss. 11, pp. 137-149

Article Type: Research paper

Publisher: North American Business Press

Abstract:

As a critical-Colombian scholar, I read the reality of my country with an urgent need to act and build bridges between communities and academia. I discuss how 2016 peace-agreements and 2018 presidentialelections marked an important historical period for Colombia. I examine the relationship between neoliberalism and educational policies to further discuss why social justice education matters in Colombia. I introduce the roots, premises, and stages of the “Pedagogy of Possibilities” where social justice constitutes an individual and collective act to become a door of possibilities to let others be and become. I explain how a social-justice-oriented syllabus impacted EFL pre-service teachers’ identity construction.