Unauthorized Outlooks on Second Languages Education and Policies

​Carmen Helena Guerrero Nieto is a full professor in the PhD program in Education and in the MA in Communication Education from the Universidad Distrital, Colombia. Her research interests and publications are in critical pedagogy, bilingualism, and teacher education. Her work has aimed at voicing English teachers’ concerns, experiences and interests. She is the main researcher of the group Critical Studies on Educational Policies.

• Chapter 1: Disobedient ELT research: breaking the rules, finding alternatives, invoking other ontologies.- Chapter 2: Colombian Language Teachers’ Storied Agency: Can It Actually Challenge the Neoliberal Inset of Education Policies?- Chapter 3: Breaking the silence and Empowering Pre-Service English Language Teachers through Critical Collaborative Autoethnography.- Chapter 4:  Teaching Spanish and cultural identity: a decolonial perspective.- Chapter 5: Towards a Paradigm Shift in ELT in Colombia.- Chapter 6: Deskilling of English teachers: Neoliberalism, internal colonialism, and the reification of English.- Chapter 7: An Approach to The Discourse of Standard English: Unveiling A Disciplinary Power Exercise in the English Language Curriculum.- Chapter 8: Educational policies in language teaching learning process in Colombia: subjectivities, resistance and struggles.- Chapter 9: English and socioeconomic development: The need to reorient pedagogy in L2 education.- Chapter 10:Examining racialised practices in ELT: enhancing critical new horizons.