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Practitioner Agency and Identity in English for Academic Purposes
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eBook - ePub
Practitioner Agency and Identity in English for Academic Purposes
About this book
This volume provides insights into EAP practitioners' identity and agency in varied contexts and field positions.
Each chapter delves into a theoretical perspective (Bourdieu's field theory, Post-humanism, Legitimation Code Theory, Symbolic Interactionism..), and a variety of methodologies, enabling different questions to be explored. Each chapter is also a window into the everyday life of practitioners as they navigate their professional lives, and the specificities of their EAP contexts, the politics and struggles over power, domination, legitimacy, status, ambition and recognition. The authors' concerns and strategies vary and show that the weight of powerful structures and collective habitus is difficult - but not impossible- to resist.
From a socio-analysis of EAP and its narratives of origins, to a discussion on Ethics in EAP and a critique of the Global South label, the reader will explore contributions from Canada, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, the UK, and Zimbabwe.
The chapters reveal a field which is made up of a constellation of worlds, each with its own logic but importantly, a field with no centre. The studies in the chapters are likely to intrigue, inspire, but also disrupt some readers' expectations and challenge their assumptions about the field and its practitioners.
Each chapter delves into a theoretical perspective (Bourdieu's field theory, Post-humanism, Legitimation Code Theory, Symbolic Interactionism..), and a variety of methodologies, enabling different questions to be explored. Each chapter is also a window into the everyday life of practitioners as they navigate their professional lives, and the specificities of their EAP contexts, the politics and struggles over power, domination, legitimacy, status, ambition and recognition. The authors' concerns and strategies vary and show that the weight of powerful structures and collective habitus is difficult - but not impossible- to resist.
From a socio-analysis of EAP and its narratives of origins, to a discussion on Ethics in EAP and a critique of the Global South label, the reader will explore contributions from Canada, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, the UK, and Zimbabwe.
The chapters reveal a field which is made up of a constellation of worlds, each with its own logic but importantly, a field with no centre. The studies in the chapters are likely to intrigue, inspire, but also disrupt some readers' expectations and challenge their assumptions about the field and its practitioners.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Series
- Dedication
- Title
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Series Editorsā Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I: Mesocosms
- 1 A Socio-Analysis of English for Academic Purposes
- 2 An Exploration of the Ethics of Scholarship in EAP: Collegial Connections and Ethical Entanglements
- 3 EAP Practitioners in the Global South: Participation, Positioning and Agency in the Context of āPeripheralā Scholars and Scholarship
- Part II: Microcosms
- 4 EAP Practitionersā Agency and Identity in Pakistan: From Social Class to Social Capital
- 5 Trials and Tribulations of EAP Practitioners in Zimbabwe
- 6 āBe More Pirateā: Harnessing the Power of Liminal Spaces in Creating Academic Literacy Practitioner Identity and Agency
- 7 Finding Space and Voice: Duoethnographic Exploration of Teacher Agency in EAP
- 8 Respected Teachers or a Marginalized, Stigmatized Profession? An Exploration of UK EAP Practitioner Identity
- 9 EAP Teacher Agency in a Digital Age
- 10 āChanging Lanesā: Balancing between Roles of EAP Lecturer and Researcher in a Teaching Institution towards a Research University
- 11 Responding to Studentsā Disciplinary Writing in a University-Wide Writing Requirement: Negotiating Agency through Positioning
- 12 Power and the Canadian EAP Practitioner: Multiethnography as Resistance?
- Conclusion: Engaging with Identity and Agency in a Collaborative Project
- Index
- Copyright