An-Other Reading of Peace Construction in ELT ; Una lectura otra sobre la construcción de paz en la enseñanza del inglés ; Um lendo outro sobre a construção da paz no ensino de Inglês

Someone recently suggested to me: “war is more profitable than peace” (J.Rodríguez, personal communication, October 24th, 2017). This prompted my consideration of the idea that peace construction in multiple settings could entail purposes other than the taken-for-granted and literal ones (Aldana, in press). In this reflective article, within the journal’s language and conflict theme, I will discuss discourses related to the handling of peace construction in order to examine its transformation in governmental, academic and media documents up to 2019. Documents containing the word peace in various contexts were selected, and as such the period varied. The work is approached from my position as a mixed-race educator and researcher with a decolonial and critical epistemological perspective. This qualitative exploratory study approaches peace construction in ELT from a field of methodological uncertainties and a creative toolbox. Both historicizing and critical discourse analysis resources are employed in an inclusionary manner to achieve the eventualisation (Restrepo, 2008) of multiple ways of understanding and referring to the construction of peace in ELT. In this sense, the role of language appears as an underlying starting point. The results discuss the discourse about pacification for progress in ELT as a discursive event with different universal and market interests. It constitutes an alternative reading of peace construction in ELT as linked to seemingly disperse discursive events mediated by language in real documents. ; Alguien expresó en mi pasado reciente: “la guerra es más rentable que la paz” (J.Rodríguez, comunicación personal, octubre 24 de 2017). Este comentario me hizo pensar en que la construcción de paz en múltiples escenarios implicaría otros propósitos más allá de lo literal (Aldana, en prensa). En este artículo de reflexión, en la línea temática de lenguaje y conflicto de la revista, se discuten algunos discursos subyacentes al tratamiento dado a la construcción de paz, para comprender su ...