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.

• 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

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.