Language Teacher Identities: Co-constructing Discourse and Community

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Multilingual Matters, 2008 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 214 pages
This book explores the development of the first cohort of students to complete a new Bachelor of Education in English language teaching in the United Arab Emirates, theorizing the students' learning to teach in terms of the discursive construction of a teaching identity within an evolving community of practice.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
Locality
33
Conclusion
39
Vygotsky
57
Discourse and Material Practice
65
The Formation of a Community of Practice
75
The Discursive Construction of Systems of Knowledge
105
The Discursive Construction of Interpersonal Relations
136
The Discursive Construction of Intrapersonal Identity
157
7
182
References
200
Index
212
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About the author (2008)

Currently an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong, Matthew Clarke led the development and implementation of the new Bachelor of Education at the Higher Colleges of Technology in the United Arab Emirates between 1999 and 2006. Prior to working in teacher education, he taught in primary schools and language centres in the UK and Australia. His research interests include discourse analysis, identity, social theory, cultural studies and philosophy as well as language and literacy education.

Bibliographic information

TitleLanguage Teacher Identities: Co-constructing Discourse and Community
Volume 8 of New perspectives on language and education
AuthorMatthew Clarke
PublisherMultilingual Matters, 2008
ISBN1847690815, 9781847690814
Length214 pages
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Language Arts & Disciplines / Study & Teaching
  
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