Narratives of East Asian Women Teachers of

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. The volume shares who they are as transnational and mobile women living in the midst of linguistic privilege and marginalization. It is one outcome of a research project and the lived experiences which surround and influence (and were influenced by) it. The author documents how she and her research partners began studying what had drawn them to US TESOL programs, and how English was and is a symbol of power and privilege, a symbol of educational access and a pursuit of equity, yet, at times, is also a symbol of linguistic marginalization.

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

Prologue

Chapter 1: Rendering My Autobiographical Poetic Inquiry

Chapter 2: Exposing our Discourses of Privilege and Marginalization: Gender, Race, Class Connections to Teaching English

Chapter 3: “Writing is a Way of Knowing” in Promoting Evocative-Genres of Inquiry: Methodological Choices

Chapter 4: Where Privilege meets Marginalization in Han Nah's Lived Experiences: Navigating her Multiple Gendered Identities

Chapter 5: Where Privilege meets Marginalization in the Narratives of Liu, Xia and Yu Ri: Exploring their Linguistic and Teacher Identities

Chapter 6: Being Critical of and Learning from the Women's Narratives: Where Privilege Intersects Marginalization

References

Appendix A: Guidelines for Electronic Reflective Autobiographical Narratives

Appendix B: Guidelines for Electronically Journaling Educational Incidents

Appendix C: Interview Questions

Index

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

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