Harnessing the professional value of a transnational disposition: Perceptions of migrant English language teachers in Hong Kong

Harnessing the professional value of a transnational disposition: Perceptions of migrant English language teachers in Hong Kong

• Gu, Ming Yue Michelle Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Canagarajah, Suresh Pennsylvania State University

Applied Linguistics, 2017

Oxford University Press

2017

• M 教師與教師教育
  • MF 教育工作人員之特徵與境況
• M 教師與教師教育
  • MG 教育工作人員之身份認同、態度與意見
• M 教師與教師教育
  • MI 內地教師、外籍教師、外籍英語教師計劃

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• 中學教育

This article investigates the experiences in knowledge development and sharing of a group of migrant teachers from different Asian countries who are teaching in secondary schools in Hong Kong. Seeing dispositions as the key to professionalization and professional contributions, it explores the possibilities and challenges in harnessing the professional value of their transnational disposition. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to investigate the participants’ position in the workplace, negotiations of the local curriculum and classroom practice, and professional interactions with colleagues and parents. The findings show that these teachers actively respond to invisibility and marginalization by drawing from their transcultural disposition to creatively but cautiously transform pedagogical practices and discourses. It is found that the presence of migrant professionals in local context provides opportunities for critical reflexivity and transnational awareness among local professionals. It is implied that the changes in thinking and awareness may lead to broad-based ideological and structural changes, which in turn promotes productive knowledge exchange. Copyright © 2017 Oxford University Press.

• 英文

期刊論文

• 01426001

• 10.1093/applin/amw048

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/tc/bibs/41a79e92

2018-07-11