Rethinking Advocacy/Allyship: Challenges for TESOL Classrooms and Workplaces (79745)
Session Chair: Kathleen Brown
Sunday, 16 June 2024 14:10
Session: Session 3
Room: Salle 234
Presentation Type:Oral Presentation
Critical discourse addressing problems with the native/non-native English speaker teacher (NEST/NNEST) paradigm in English language teaching has been a part of the literature since the late 1990s (e.g., Kubota, 1998; Pennycook, 1998) and yet it is still an issue that continues to impact the diversity of our EFL classrooms today. There is an increasing collection of narratives from EFL teachers who regularly experience exclusion, marginalization, and microaggression as English L2+ users (e.g., Hashimoto, 2023; Matikainen, 2023; Okada, 2020; Oo, 2023). How can we effectively impact change to this narrative within our EFL classrooms and workplaces?
The presenter will discuss the concept of “advocate” in the TESOL workplace and how this can inform our practices as teachers as well as leaders responsible for decision making in staffing our classrooms. We will explore the spectrum of “ally,” “accomplice,” and “co-conspirator” as introduced by Tiffany Jana (2021) and Jana & Baran (2020). In doing so, we will expand traditional advocacy/allyship constructs and discuss the realities, pragmatics, and pitfalls of challenging the NEST/NNEST paradigm. Participants will be encouraged to tap into their own teaching/leadership experiences and potential as we explore this topic and solutions together.
Authors:
Kathleen Brown, Kurume University, Japan
About the Presenter(s)
Dr Kathleen Brown is a University Professor/Principal Lecturer at Kurume University in Japan
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