Melancholy in narratives of early career English teachers in Hong Kong

Melancholy in narratives of early career English teachers in Hong Kong

The poetics of grief and melancholy in east-west conflicts and reconciliations

• Yip, Wai Chi Jesse The Education University of Hong Kong

• Lau, Chi Sum Garfield Hong Kong Metropolitan University
• Chan, Kelly Kar Yue Hong Kong Metropolitan University

Singapore

Springer

2024

• 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
• G 課程與教學:個別教學範疇
  • GB 英文

English Teachers Melancholy Narrative Inquiry Teacher Emotion

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• 中學教育

A wealth of studies has shed light on how the identity and emotions of English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers are formed and interinfluenced. However, very few studies focus on a specific emotion of ESL teachers that adversely affects teacher professionalism. Drawing upon the notion of melancholy (Brady and Haapala 2003), this chapter conducts narrative inquiry and thematic analysis to investigate how melancholy is experienced by early career English teachers in their narratives. The research is conducted through a longitudinal qualitative multiple-case study of three ESL teachers working in secondary schools for seven years in Hong Kong. Specifically, the chapter elucidates how socio-cultural factors, such as self and personality, school culture, peer relationships, and student performance, contribute to the melancholy experienced by ESL teachers. The findings of this study serve to conceptualize the melancholic sense of ESL teachers regardless of institutional changes and provide implications for enhancing the well-being and career sustainability of ESL teachers in Hong Kong. Copyright © 2024 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.

• 英文

章節

• 9789819998203

• 10.1007/978-981-99-9821-0_12

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/tc/bibs/56e42884

2024-08-08