Narratives of East Asian Women Teachers of English: Where Privilege Meets Marginalization

Gloria Park

Published by Multilingual Matters 2017

Narratives of East Asian Women Teachers of English

Where Privilege Meets Marginalization

Gloria Park

In the series New Perspectives on Language and Education

https://doi.org/10.21832/9781783098736

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About this book

This book is a powerful narrative of how six women experienced their lives alongside their desire to overcome the challenging and empowering nature of the English language. This book shares who they are as transnational and mobile women living in the midst of linguistic privilege and marginalization.

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Park Gloria :

Gloria Park is Professor of English, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA. Her research interests include teachers' narrative inquiry and language teacher identity.

Reviews

Intertwining themes from the story of her own shifting subjectivities with the narratives of her participants, Gloria Park provides thought-provoking support for teachers and teacher educators seeking to challenge static ideas about how privilege and marginalization are constituted and reconstituted within every layer of identity. An unconventional, fresh, stimulating read!

Through her revealing depiction of five East-Asian women in TESOL along with her own candid autobiographical reflection, Gloria Park opens a window onto the internal landscapes of a prominent group within the field who are often unheard and overlooked. She illuminates how transnational identities are (re)constructed through shifting intersections of privilege and marginalization. This work initiates a long-needed conversation around how uninterrogated practices within the academy can marginalize and silence the voices of many.

Park is masterful at theorizing and documenting the lives of her research partners, and interweaving their stories with her evolving self-understanding of her rich and multifaceted personal and professional identity. This book is essential reading for those involved with the education of multilingual students becoming teachers of EAL.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Prologue: (Re)Making the Book: Where Privilege and Marginalization Began Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
1. Rendering My Autobiographical Poetic Inquiry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Exposing our Discourses of Privilege and Marginalization: Gender, Race and Class Connections to Teaching English Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
3. ‘Writing is a Way of Knowing’ in Promoting Evocative-Genres of Inquiry: Methodological Choices Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
4. Where Privilege Meets Marginalization in Han Nah’s Lived Experiences: Navigating her Multiple Gendered Identities Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
5. Where Privilege Meets Marginalization in the Narratives of Liu, Xia and Yu Ri: Exploring Their Linguistic and Teacher Identities Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
6. Epilogue: Juxtaposing My Autobiographical Critical Incidents with Meanings gleaned from the Women’s Narratives: Where Privilege Meets Marginalization Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	94
Appendix A: Guidelines for Electronic Reflective Autobiographical Narratives Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
Appendix B: Guidelines for Electronically Journaling Educational Incidents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Appendix C: Interview Questions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121

Language: English
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Keywords: Language teacher identity; Privilege and marginalization; Women’s narratives; Race; Class and Gender connection; English language teaching; ELT; Feminism; Feminist theory; Language teachers; Race; Identity

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Published: September 13, 2017
ISBN: 9781783098736