English Language Teacher Education: Facing Challenges, Forging Connections
The KARDS Model
Professor Insuasty posted the
following in his blog:
DIRECTIONS: Watch Kumaravadivelu´s talk on “English Language
Teacher Education”, and make and post in your personal blog a mind map
of the KARDS model.
DIRECTIONS: In addition to designing the mind map about the
KARDS model, answer the following reflective and critical questions
1. How would you keep the lamp burning?
2. What criticism would you make to the KARDS model?
Posted by Edgar Insuasty at 4:58 AM
These are my responses:
1. I would keep my lamp
burning by means of updating with the new trends that emerge in language
teaching. However, I will not disregard the possibility of doing research in my
own classes, looking forward to enhancing the teaching-learning process in my
own context.
2. I think that the KARDS
model that professor Kumaravadivelu proposes is really interesting as an
attempt to fulfill the requirements that education has nowadays. Nonetheless, I
consider that the model is trying to be universally possible; and consequently,
it seems to me that it is quite general. In this regard, I argue that more
details about the use of this model should be provided, without the intention
of losing its universality. In addition, it is not clear to me what he exactly
means when he uses the word “globalization” as he explains that KARDS is a
model that works towards facing the challenges of education in the globalized
world. Therefore, a better understanding of his conceptualizations for the
model could lead the practitioners of it to have clearer notions and to act
accordingly to them.
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