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Book Review: Educating Second Language Teachers

Although Section IV is headed ‘Creativity in Teacher Development’, as we have seen, threads relating to this area are woven through many chapters of the book. The word ‘creative’ springs to mind for the format of these chapters. In Chapter 14 headed ‘A Conversation’ Bailey and Krishnan report verbatim their own discussion on this topic. Then Ollerhead and Burns ‘cultivate teachers’ understandings of creativity in language and the classroom’ (p. 243) by using narrative enquiry. This review has not done justice to every chapter in the book, choosing instead to give the flavour of each section through highlighting just some of the contributions. Collectively, the authors bring creativity alive in both their content and their ways of writing about it. I can see the book being particularly useful in ongoing professional development courses for teachers who are looking for fresh ideas. It is a valuable addition to the Routledge ESL and Applied Linguistics Series.