Critical pedagogy and social justice education have gained increasing attention in recent years in many subject matters, and world language education has been no exception to this trend. There are a number of works dedicated to critical pedagogy in world language education. At the same time that such concerns have gained attention, another parallel development has been taking place: the increasing number of courses and programs in American Sign Language (ASL) that are being offered as foreign language options at both the secondary and tertiary levels. In this article, we discuss a curriculum development project to bring these two developments together. Specifically, we are interested in the creation of a curriculum for a beginning ASL course that both introduces students to ASL as a foreign language and which provides an introduction to the Deaf culture—and which does so through the lens of critical pedagogy and social justice education.

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在美国手语课程中教授聋人文化：走向批判性教学法

近年来，批判教育学和社会正义教育在许多学科领域越来越受到关注，世界语言教育也不例外。有许多作品致力于世界语言教育中的批判性教学法。在这些担忧引起关注的同时，另一个平行的发展也在发生：越来越多的美国手语 (ASL) 课程和课程在中学和大学作为外语选项提供。在本文中，我们将讨论将这两种发展结合起来的课程开发项目。具体来说，