Social Justice in Foreign Language Teaching? Whose values? Why values?

Abstract

It is 2021, children are learning “que” or “qui” in French lessons and what better way to learn this than through jokes (see Figure 1)? But wait! Is the joke on the kids? Did they notice that these jokes were potentially racist and definitely mi-sogynistic, or did it not matter because “que” or “qui” is the aim here!? They no-ticed. I noticed, and here we are. Even more upsetting was the side-comment from a teacher: “well, it’s allowed because it accompanies the coursebook”.