Full Description
This is the first edited volume to bring together research on the interaction between language teacher identity and wellbeing. It addresses the need for further research on the experience of language teachers and the vulnerability and resilience they demonstrate in the face of threats to their wellbeing. Naming, describing and analyzing issues with a view to sensitively addressing them, this book contributes to research as a social enterprise which can raise public consciousness of these issues. Exploring how language teacher identity influences and is influenced by wellbeing, the chapters develop a theoretical and empirical understanding of this interaction using Indigenous, psychological, critical and postmodern frameworks and the personal perspectives of teachers and researchers. Spanning a wide range of cultural and institutional contexts, this book provides a wealth of insights for teacher learners, practicing teachers and researchers.
Contents
Contributors
Gary Barkhuizen: Foreword: Language Teacher Identity
Sarah Mercer: Foreword: Language Teacher Wellbeing
Anne Feryok: Introduction: Language Teacher Identity and Wellbeing: A Holistic Approach
Part 1: Knowledging
Chapter 1. Paia Taani and Karyn Paringatai: Kua tau tōku mauri - The Balance between Māori Language Teacher Cultural Identity and Wellbeing
Chapter 2. Manka Varghese, Rachel Snyder Bhansari and Camille Ungco: Collectivizing Our Care: Holistic Wellbeing in Teacher Education for Multilingual Teachers of Color
Chapter 3. Elizabeth R. Miller: Exploring Language Teacher Emotions of Belonging and Identity Formation from a Critical Poststructuralist Perspective
Chapter 4. Bedrettin Yazan: The Promise of Critical Autoethnography as Identity-Oriented Learning Activity for Teacher Wellbeing
Part 2: Developing
Chapter 5. Sylvia Moore and Doris Dicker: Teaching, Learning and Balancing Wellness: The Life of a Labrador Inuttitut Teacher
Chapter 6. Zia Tajeddin and Elahe Moladoust: Language Teacher Identity Tensions: Effects on Job Satisfaction
Chapter 7. Maria Ruohotie-Lyhty and Josephine Moate: Exploring Language-Specialised Student Teacher Identity and Wellbeing in a Bilingual Teacher Education Programme
Chapter 8. Richard S. Pinner: Burnout, Energy Return on Investment and Recovering Post-Pandemic Motivation: An Oversharing Narrative
Chapter 9. Rouhollah Askaribigdeli: The Interplay of Language Teacher Identity Development and Wellbeing: The Case of a Muslim ESOL Teacher
Part 3: Practicing
Chapter 10. Shelley Tulloch: Identity and Wellbeing in Journeys of Inuit and Yup'ik Language Teachers
Chapter 11. John Trent: Taking a Turn for the Worse: Private Supplementary Tutor Identity Construction and Wellbeing in the Context of the 'Double Reduction' Policy in China
Chapter 12. Mostafa Nazari, Sedigheh Karimpour and Ismail Xodabande: Emotions as Mediating the Nexus between Iranian English Language Teachers' Wellbeing and Identity Construction: An Ecological Perspective
Chapter 13. Sun Shin: The Connections between University EFL Teachers' Wellbeing and their Teaching Identities in the Korean Context
Chapter 14. Vincent Greenier and Agni Connor: Exploring the Wellbeing and Identity of EMI Lecturers at a UK University's International Branch Campus
Anne Feryok: Conclusion: Balancing and Decentering
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