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It well explains how Iranian EFL teachers voice their ideas if they are transformed to a new role as transformative intellectual!

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It is important as teachers learn there is no need to stick to those strict, tough and unfair syllabi where teachers as well as students' voices are suppressed. Teachers are training future social members of societies where divergent competing ideologies are living together, so students need to be well-empowered to live in such a community. To achieve such a goal, teachers are obliged to take new roles as transformative intellectuals to challenge all embedded injustices and biases in surrounding communities and teach students how to be well-acquainted with tools to survive in larger society with all biases, injustices, and unfairness in each and every activities.

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This page is a summary of: Proletarianization of English Language Teaching: Iranian EFL teachers and their alternative role as transformative intellectuals, Policy Futures in Education, December 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1478210316681203.
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