Exploring values in English Language Teaching: teacher beliefs, reflection and practice

English language classrooms and schools are local environments in which values, value-judgements and value-based decisions are part and parcel of the daily working lives of teachers and teacher educators. Moreover, we are also involved in a profession which is global in scale and effect, and where difference is a way of life. Yet it may be true to say that values are rarely reflected upon openly in staffrooms and on professional development programmes