Language Textbooks in the era of Neoliberalism

Pau Bori is Lecturer in Catalan Studies at the University of Belgrade. He is interested in language education and language teaching materials, examining both from a political economy perspective. He has published papers in various journals and contributed chapters to books of collected articles.

• ContentsChapter 1, IntroductionChapter 2, A Short History of Foreign Language Education in EuropeChapter 3, Critical Research on Language TextbooksChapter 4, Analyzing Textbooks from a Political Economy PerspectiveChapter 5, The Catalan ContextChapter 6, Social Class in TextbooksChapter 7, The World of Work: Constructing an Entrepreneurial IdentityChapter 8, The World of Housing: Creating a Neoliberal Fairytale Chapter 9, ConclusionsReferencesIndex

This is a sobering book to read. One of Bori’s aims is ‘to awakenawareness among the educational and academic communities about thenecessity to look critically at textbooks from a political and economicperspective’ (p. 162). The book has a lot to say to materials developers, tomake us question what we are portraying and the possible consequences.- Kathleen Graves, ELT Journal (Volume 73/3 July 2019)