David D. Perrodin – Featured Speaker @ KOTESOL 2026
Featured Session
Critical Pedagogies of Care: Reimagining English Language Teaching in Asia
In an era of rapid technological change, shifting learner identities, and widening global inequities, English language educators are called to respond with critical awareness, innovative practice, and human compassion. This session draws on recent collaborative research examining how Asian educators negotiate criticality and care within diverse English language teaching contexts across schools and universities. It introduces an Asian orientation model for critical English language teaching – one that integrates dialogic learning, teacher reflexivity, contextual adaptability, and pedagogies of care. The model reframes English language education as a transformative social practice rooted in empathy, inclusion, and ethical responsibility rather than compliance and transmission. By connecting criticality to compassion, it challenges teachers to move beyond instrumental outcomes toward ethically grounded learning that affirms students’ agency, voice, and humanity. It also emphasizes the vital role of intercultural understanding, professional community, and shared reflection in sustaining compassionate practice. Ultimately, this session invites educators to reimagine language teaching as both an intellectual and moral endeavor – one capable of cultivating awareness, resilience, and meaningful human connection in times of uncertainty and change.
Biosketch
David D. Perrodin is an English language specialist at the Institute for Population and Social Research (IPSR), Mahidol University, where he also serves as journal manager of the Journal of Population and Social Studies (JPSS). He primarily teaches academic writing and research methodology and conducts seminars on educational leadership and intercultural communication. He also serves as a visiting lecturer and advisor in master’s and doctoral programs across Asia. He is in the final stage of doctoral studies in Development Education at Silpakorn University in Thailand. With nearly two decades of professional experience in Thailand, he has published close to 100 scholarly works and delivered more than 300 keynote and plenary presentations internationally. His research focuses on language education policy, extralocal teachers of English (ETEs), discourse and identity, and educational leadership. His forthcoming projects examine teacher legitimacy and social perception, educational reform and policy alignment, raciolinguistic and ideological hierarchies in education, and the emotional labor of English teachers.
Web Links
David Perrodin's University Expert Profile: https://ipsr.mahidol.ac.th/en/people_position/foreign-expert-en/
Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=w-inwNwAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
ORCID Profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4328-7342
Recent Publications
Jeyaraj, J. J., Kiss, T., & Perrodin, D. D. (2025). Situating ELT critical pedagogies in Southeast Asia: Challenges and opportunities. In J. J. Jeyaraj, T. Kiss, & D. D. Perrodin (Eds.), Critical pedagogies in English language learning and teaching: Foundations, practices, and possibilities (pp. 182–205). https://penerbit.usm.my/index.php/buku/603-critical-pedagogies-in-englis...
Perrodin, D. D., Liangruenrom, N., & Taworntawat, C. (2024). Navigating intercultural communication challenges: Addressing language barriers and foreign language anxiety among Thai low-cost airline ground staff. Trends in Psychology, 32(2). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43076-024-00420-0
Fitrawati, F., Syarif, H., Zaim, M., & Perrodin, D. D. (2023). The perceptions of tertiary students and lecturers regarding CLIL-based critical reading material employing interactive multimedia. Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 12(3), 612–625. https://doi.org/10.17509/ijal.v12i3.36838
Perrodin, D. D., Perrodin, O., & Painuchit, A. (2023). English teacher recruiting assumptions in Thai secondary education: Is the extralocal teacher of English designation the answer? BRU ELT Journal, 1(1), 99–112. https://doi.org/10.14456/bej.2023.8
Perrodin, D. D., & Watson Todd, R. (2022). Operationalizing the constructs of privilege and marginalization: A developing researcher’s autoethnographic exploration. The Qualitative Report, 27(5), 1261–1275. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2022.4962
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