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INTRODUCTION
This book’s twofold goal integrates theory and praxis in an attempt to decolonize the curriculum. On the one hand, these pages aim to inform about theoretical aspects of racism and how it manifests in language programs. In this sense, this book is interested in establishing a conversation about topics that may help educators reflect on an antiracist approach to language teaching while providing the fundamental concepts necessary to be familiar with before attempting to implement it. On the other hand, from a more practical approach ‘concerned with the functional process of how the process of decolonization might happen’ (Ade-ojo, 2021: 1), this book aims to provide a theory-based pedagogical rationale and strategy to fight racism in the language classroom through instruction that integrates research-based contents related to the sociopolitical dimension of language (also referred to as sociopolitical contents [SPCs]) aiming to raise critical linguistic awareness (CLA) in relation to racism. The purpose of this book, then, is to combat racism within one institution that has historically perpetuated it: the university. US educational institutions – and their educators – have the moral duty to transmit ethical beliefs framed within the national, or rather a-national, self-concept of a pluralistic, democratic, egalitarian ideology, as well as the knowledge and skills necessary to thrive, or at least survive, physically, psychologically and socially in our society and across societies in this globalized world. It is our duty as educators to break a system that echoes beliefs such as, quoting Princeton President Woodrow Wilson, ‘[T]he college is not for the majority who carry forward the common labor of the world [but] it is for the minority who plan, who conceive, who superintend’ (Veysey, 1970: 245, cited in Cabrera et al., 2017).
MAGRO, José L. Language and Antiracism. An Antiracist Approach to Teaching Language in the USA. Jackson: Multilingual Matters, 2023, pp. 15-6. (Adapted).
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Fundamento decisivo: O ponto decisivo era identificar, no excerto, a formulação explícita do objetivo do livro: oferecer uma estratégia pedagógica para enfrentar o racismo na sala de aula de línguas.
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- Dê preferência à alternativa que preserva o meio de ação indicado no texto; aqui, o meio era pedagógico e ligado à sala de aula de línguas.
- Elimine opções que expandem o escopo para instituições, gestores ou rotinas profissionais se o texto delimita um contexto mais específico.
- Não confunda tema geral do texto com finalidade exata do autor; o tema é racismo na universidade, mas o objetivo operacional é pedagógico.
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