Narratives of East Asian Women Teachers of English

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

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.

• PrologueChapter 1: Rendering My Autobiographical Poetic InquiryChapter 2: Exposing our Discourses of Privilege and Marginalization: Gender, Race, Class Connections to Teaching EnglishChapter 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 IdentitiesChapter 5: Where Privilege meets Marginalization in the Narratives of Liu, Xia and Yu Ri: Exploring their Linguistic and Teacher IdentitiesChapter 6: Being Critical of and Learning from the Women’s Narratives: Where Privilege Intersects MarginalizationReferencesAppendix A: Guidelines for Electronic Reflective Autobiographical NarrativesAppendix B: Guidelines for Electronically Journaling Educational IncidentsAppendix C: Interview QuestionsIndex