What an English Teacher Knows: Teaching in the Post-truth Era

Wescott, Stephanie

doi:10.1080/1358684x.2020.1859357

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“…Under traditional teaching methods, teachers mainly rely on theoretical knowledge to impart knowledge. However, with the growth of modern technology, many disciplines have begun to attempt to integrate modern educational concepts into classroom teaching [11][12]. As an international common language, English has developed different characteristics in the context of the development of the times.…”

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Investigation on the Current Situation and Reform and Development of College English Teaching in the Big Data Era

2023

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In recent years, with the rapid development of educational informatization and the continuous deepening of the application of information technology in the field of education, there have been significant changes in English learning methods. Traditional teaching models can no longer meet the needs of students' autonomous learning and communication. Based on information technology, this paper used big data technology and network technology to gather ingredients, store and process information in the process of English teaching, and used the Internet and mobile communication equipment and other technical means to achieve interactive communication between English classroom teaching and students' learning, so as to explore the new type teaching model in the era of rapid information take-off and cultivate students' autonomous learning ability and innovation ability. Through the analysis and summary of the traditional English teaching methods and the teaching effect after the reform in the big data era, it proved that the English teaching reform in the big data era was effective and feasible. In this teaching mode, students could not only improve learning efficiency and effectiveness, but also cultivate their good language proficiency. This improved the quality of college English teaching by about 12.63%. It provided a good new teaching idea to promote the development of college English. In the age of data, the traditional teaching methods of college English teaching were changed by using new technology. On the premise of ensuring the teaching quality, could enable students to complete knowledge accumulation and ability improvement faster and better, effectively accelerate the classroom speed of English course teaching, and also help stimulate college students' learning interest and initiative.

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Investigation on the Current Situation and Reform and Development of College English Teaching in the Big Data Era

2023

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“…For example, Holloway and Larsen Hedegaard (2021) write that evidence-based impositions have implications for what teachers can "do, be and become," constricting their capacity to practice freely (p. 2). Evidence-based orthodoxies also mean that teachers are compelled to defer to sources other than their own professional knowledge when planning lessons or making decisions (Wescott, 2021). Further, Biesta (2017) argues that the persistent policy preoccupation with measurement, standards, and evidence erodes education's democratic potential.…”

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The post-truth tyrannies of an evidence-based hegemony

Wescott

2022

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A trend towards evidence-based practice has developed in policy and practice in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia in recent years, evolving to become a powerful hegemonic force. This paper considers this latest impetus to teach according to the mandates of a narrow evidence base as a symptom of the post-truth condition, one that elevates a limited body of evidence to an infallible position. Drawing on interviews with practicing teachers and critical discourse analysis of policy texts, this paper explores the homogenizing effects of a tyrannical evidence-based movement, using Antonio Gramsci’s (1971) writing on the relationship between consent, coercion, and the maintenance of cultural hegemony. This paper argues that the contemporary policy landscape obtains consent from teachers to accept its claims through a coercive paradigm built from a powerful set of hegemonic discourses, such as “what works” and “evidence-based.” These discourses, this paper suggests, need to be considered within the current post-truth context, where the dismissal of research claims is akin to scientific skepticism; a dynamic that places teachers in an impossible bind where the evidence underpinning policy is protected by a paradigm that makes it difficult to question.

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“…La posverdad o posverdadismo se refiere a narrativas no veraces que influyen en la opinión pública y actitudes sociales, el término ganó prominencia tras ser nombrado palabra del año en 2016 (Wescott, 2021). Los eventos falsos, mediados por la tecnología, catalizan la concepción de la posverdad (Gudonis y Jones, 2020).…”

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La posverdad en América Latina y el Caribe: Una perspectiva netnográfica de la agnogénesis

Borrego-Ramírez,

Ruiz-Cansino,

Borrego-Gómez

2023

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En la actualidad, la ignorancia, aunque útil para aspirar a la verdad, se ha convertido en un espacio vacío, donde las verdades existentes son modificadas a través de las noticias falsas o posverdad, estrategia de la agnogénesis. El objetivo de este estudio fue identificar la presencia del fenómeno de la posverdad en 26 países de América Latina y el Caribe (ALC). Los aspectos metodológicos corresponden a una perspectiva netnográfica. Se utilizaron técnicas de análisis cualitativo y cuantitativo. Se realizó una búsqueda y análisis de publicaciones científicas en de bases de datos e información de los organismos Transparencia Internacional, Banco Mundial y Observatorio de Infodemia COVID-19. Los resultados permitieron determinar que la posverdad es un fenómeno ampliamente presente y relevante en ALC, difundida a través de los diversos medios de comunicación, pero con importancia relevante de las redes sociales. En ALC, la vulnerabilidad a la agnogénesis se correlacionó con la alta percepción de la corrupción por parte de la población. Se requiere profundizar en el estudio del fenómeno con enfoques multidisciplinarios, considerando la diversidad de contextos en la región.

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What an English Teacher Knows: Teaching in the Post-truth Era

Cited by 9 publications

References 25 publications

Investigation on the Current Situation and Reform and Development of College English Teaching in the Big Data Era

Investigation on the Current Situation and Reform and Development of College English Teaching in the Big Data Era

The post-truth tyrannies of an evidence-based hegemony

La posverdad en América Latina y el Caribe: Una perspectiva netnográfica de la agnogénesis

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