Title: Black Teachers of English(es) in Japan
Subtitle: Transnational, Professional and Pedagogical Encounters
Series Title: New Perspectives on Language and Education
Publication Year: 2024

Publisher: Multilingual Matters
http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
Book URL: https://www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/?K=9781800416338

Author(s): Gregory Paul Glasgow

Pbk ISBN 9781800416338 £39.95 / US$59.95 / €54.95

Hbk ISBN 9781800416345 £119.95 / US$159.95 / €144.95

PDF ISBN 9781800416352 £30.00 / US$50.00 / €40.00

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Abstract:

This book examines the pedagogical and professional experiences of a transnational group of teachers from the African continent and diaspora who made the decision to live and teach English in Japan. Through a layered analytical framework, it explores how these teachers struggle to negotiate their raciolinguistic identities in contexts that may prove to be professionally supportive in some cases but marginalizing in others. The author contends that although multiculturalism and diversity within ELT in Japan may currently seem to be more prevalent, the agency that Black teachers exercise in promoting their own cultures and language varieties may be constrained depending on the characteristics of the institutions in which they teach. The issues raised in this volume will be relevant to educators, administrators, curriculum and materials developers, and researchers committed to promoting equity, racial harmony and intercultural understanding in language education.