(PDFs of individual chapters can be downloaded using the links below.)

Foreword

Tammy Gregersen

1. The loving turn in ELT: Healing the wounds of coloniality: An introduction

Julian Chen, Leonardo Veliz, & Miguel Farias

Part I: Decolonial Frameworks and Critical Transformation in English Language Education

2. Küme mogen as positive and decolonial intercultural principle in the

Mapuche culture: A con-versation with Elisa Loncon

Miguel Farías & Elisa Loncon

3. Decoloniality as a conductive thread to love and hope

Gysele da Silva Colombo-Gomes

4. A decolonial approach to English language education in the Global South: Teachers’ voices for critical radical love and social transformation 

Luz Ely González-Humanez, Luzkarime Calle-Diaz, & Luis

Fernando Noriega

5. A decolonial perspective in the teaching of English as a foreign

language in Chile: Lessons from Brazil and the teaching of Portuguese

Mila Araújo Fonseca & Patricio A. Pino Castillo

6. Transformative decolonial practice in English teacher education in

Brazil: Lovingness and resistance

Suellen Thomaz de Aquino Martins & Ana Maria Ferreira Barcelos

Part II: Love, Empathy, and Care: Healing Practices in

Language Education

7. What Palestine’s context teaches English language educators:

Lessons for healing during times of precarity

Tina Jaber Rafidi, Nader Ayish, Theresa Austin, Rachel Grant, &

Shelley Wong

8. Love, passion, or toxic relationship? Decolonial love and resistance

in the experience of public-school English teachers in Brazil

Ana Maria F. Barcelos, Viviane Darc Silva Araújo, & Raquel

Pompéia Teixeira De Melo Oliveira

9. From challenges to opportunities: A turn from deficit discourse on

disabilities to discourse of lovingness and diversity in ELT education

Andrea Lizasoain

10. Empathy in English language teaching at a public HEI in Pakistan: A strategy for healing and transformation in postcolonial Global South

Kishwer Nazli, Nida Aftab, & Sajida Zaki

11. Language learning and forced migration: Australian educators on

the relational, ethical, and emotional dimensions of ‘journeying alongside’

Rachel Burke

Part III: Unsettling Normativity for Inclusion and Social Justice

12. Promoting students’ critical consciousness, agency, and empathy

through critical language awareness (CLA) writing pedagogy

Shawna Shapiro

13. Recognizing the unseen: An analysis of theory of recognition and

positive psychology in decolonial ELT within Chilean textbooks

Victor Birkner & Sebastián Mercado

14. Initial teacher education in English language teaching in Chile:

Cultivating a transformative and sustainable teaching and learning

process

Diego Cabezas Bravo & Mauro Ramos Roa

15. Beyond silence: Queer inclusion and affirmation in Vietnamese ELT

through narrative reflection

Mai Phuc Thinh

AFTERWORD: Envisaging a future path for positive psychology

and decoloniality in ELT

Miguel Farias, Julian Chen, & Leonardo Veliz

Please cite this book as:
Chen, J., Veliz, L., & Farias, M. (Eds.) (2026). Love, healing, and hope: Transformative practices in decolonial ELT through positive psychology. Applied Linguistics Press.

Love, healing, and hope: Transformative practices in decolonial ELT through positive psychology © 2026 by Julian Chen, Leonardo Veliz, & Miguel Farias is licensed under CC BYNC-ND 4.0

ISBN: 979-8-9916790-3-9 (e-book)