Journal Articles
Intersecting global and local: The intercultural and intersubjective constructions of 'expatriate' and 'local' teachers in the search for the 'x factor'
- Intersecting global and local: The intercultural and intersubjective constructions of 'expatriate' and 'local' teachers in the search for the 'x factor'
- Pedagogies: An International Journal, 8(4), 316-335, 2013
- Routledge
- 2013
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- Hong Kong
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- 1997.7 onwards
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- Primary Education
- Secondary Education
- In 1998, the government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region began a large-scale project to import qualified, experienced native-speaking teachers of English into Hong Kong secondary schools. The Native-speaking English Teacher (NET) scheme later expanded to include Hong Kong primary schools. Currently, teachers from around the world are placed in local (Hong Kong) classrooms and staffrooms. This intersection of local and global teaching professionals is the site for the examination of interculturalist theories through interactionist methodologies. Data in the form of a semi-structured interview with a Local English Teacher (LET) is analysed using Membership Categorization Analysis. The analysis addresses two key questions. First, how are intercultural categories and attributes talked into being? Second, how can examination of these categories lead to improved understanding of the intersubjective relations between local and expatriate teachers? Findings from analysis have implications for teachers' professional development in cross-cultural contexts.[Copyright of Pedagogies: An International Journal is the property of Routledge. Full article may be available at the publisher's website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1554480X.2013.827841]
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- English
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- 1554480X
- https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/7c67a087
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