# Decentring ELT: Open Access Research from Indonesian Islamic Schools
**URL:** https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/decentring-elt-open-access-research-from-indonesian-islamic-schools/7580
**Category:** OEGlobal Spotlight
**Created:** [April 9, 2025, 7:28pm UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/decentring-elt-open-access-research-from-indonesian-islamic-schools/7580 "2025-04-09T19:28:22Z")
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### Author:  [@abdulsyahid](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/abdulsyahid)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2025, 7:28pm UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/decentring-elt-open-access-research-from-indonesian-islamic-schools/7580/1 "2025-04-09T19:28:22Z")
Absolutely thrilled to share our open publication with the OE Global community! 📚🌏
Title: Researching English Teacher Development and Classroom Instruction in Indonesian Madrasahs and Pesantren
Edited by: Anne-Coleman Webre and Donald Freeman.
Institutional Partners: Regional English Language Office (RELO) – U.S. Embassy in Indonesia, World Learning, Indonesian Ministry of Religious Affairs (MoRA), and National Geographic Learning
Published by: World Learning Publications at SIT Digital Collections
License: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
Location: Indonesia (with international collaboration)
[](https://digitalcollections.sit.edu/worldlearning_publications/5/)
Why it matters:
This open-access book shares grounded research from English teachers in Indonesia’s Islamic schools—madrasahs and pesantren—who participated in the ELTeach professional development program. It highlights local teacher voices, context-rich insights, and new directions in culturally responsive and decolonial ELT.
I’m proud to have co-authored Chapter 2, “Researching with Others: The Circumstances of the Project and These Studies,” with Prof Donald Freeman, Didin Nuruddin Hidayat, and Lois Scott-Conley. We explore how this “perfect storm” of institutional support, pedagogy, and policy opened space for teacher-driven research.
Also included is my solo-authored Chapter 10, “Transitioning from Trainee-Teacher to Teacher-Trainer,” where I reflect on identity, agency, and my growth through the cascade model. 🧑‍🏫✨
Let’s give more visibility to locally grounded, open, and collaborative research. Explore it, share it, remix it—and let’s connect to keep this movement going! 🚀💬🌍
> **[Researching English Teacher Development and Classroom Instruction in...](https://digitalcollections.sit.edu/worldlearning_publications/5/)**
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> This collection is an account of the research network, and resulting research studies, that were part of the English Language Teacher Training Project, organized by World Learning, a U.S-based non-governmental organization, with funding through the...
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### Author:  [@cogdog](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/cogdog)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2025, 5:52pm UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/decentring-elt-open-access-research-from-indonesian-islamic-schools/7580/2 "2025-04-14T17:52:26Z")
Many thanks for sharing this collection, Abdul – I hope you do not mind, I slipped in an image of the publication cover, which I would guess is a photograph of a typical Indonesian landscape.
I ask perhaps of anyone here to read a bit more about this open access research published collection, especially Abdul’s chapter 10. Give some feedback!