Practitioner Agency and Identity in English for Academic Purposes
Published on 30. May 2024
Book
Hardback
264 pages
978-1-350-26323-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
For any EAP practitioner who has felt marginalized or unseen, this rich collection shows that you are not alone and offers a vocabulary and discourse to begin to articulate the value and agency practitioners hold. Giving space to a refreshing array of voices from around the world, Practitioner Agency and Identity in EAP provides glimpses into researchers grappling with what it means to practice EAP, the ethics of our research, and our positions within the university. -- Angela Frattarola, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore It seems ironic that, while an EAP teaching centre is an indispensable part of a university worth its salt, there is "a growing existential unease" (as Alex Ding puts it) among EAP practitioners regarding their status. The value of this book thus lies in its purpose to give EAP practitioners the identity, agency, and recognition that they rightfully deserve. -- Wong Jock Onn, National University of Singapore, Singapore Provides an illuminating and insightful series of windows on the identity of the English for Academic Purposes (EAP) practitioner in a range of cultural contexts across the world. Each chapter combines theoretical underpinnings with practical applications, and implements suggestions and recommendations for how EAP teachers' roles can be taken forward. In a globalised world where EAP practice plays an increasingly important role, the reader will come face to face with the challenges and possibilities facing those who are supporting academic language development within Higher Education frameworks. -- Natalie Sharpling, University of Warwick, UKMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
10 bw illus
Dimensions
Height: 238 mm
Width: 164 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
560 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-350-26323-9 (9781350263239)
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Practitioner Agency and Identity in English for Academic Purposes
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Persons
Alex Ding is Associate Professor of English for Academic Purposes and Director of Scholarship at the University of Leeds, UK.
Laetitia Monbec is Senior Lecturer in the Centre for English Language and Communication at the National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Laetitia Monbec is Senior Lecturer in the Centre for English Language and Communication at the National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Content
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Series Editors' Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction, Alex Ding (University of Leeds)
Part I: Mesocosms
1. A Socio-Analysis of EAP, Alex Ding (University of Leeds) and Laetitia Monbec(National University of Singapore, Singapore)
2. Collegial Connections and Ethical Entanglements: An Exploration of the Ethics of Scholarship in EAP, Bee Bond (University of Leeds, UK)
3. EAP Practitioners in the Global South: Participation, Positioning and Agency in the Context of 'Peripheral' Scholars and Scholarship, Namala Lakshmi Tilakaratna (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Part II: Microcosms
4. EAP Practitioners' Identity: From Social Class to Social Capital, Tanzeela Anbreen (University of Bedfordshire, UK) and Samina Ayub(Lahore College for Women University, Pakistan)
5. Trials and Tribulations of EAP Practitioners in Zimbabwe, Tambawoga C. Muchena (Midlands State University, Zimbabwe)
6. 'Be more Pirate': Harnessing the Power of Liminal Spaces in Creating Academic Literacy Practitioner Identity and Agency, Michelle Joubert and Sherran Clarence (University of the Free State, South Africa)
7. Finding Space and Voice: Duoethnographic Exploration of Teacher Agency in EAP, Iwona Winiarska-Pringle (University of Glasgow, UK) and Ania Rolinska (Glasgow School of Art, UK)
8. Respected Teachers or a Marginalized, Stigmatized Profession? An Exploration of UK EAP Practitioner Identity, Sarah Taylor (London School of Economics and Political Science, UK)
9. EAP Teacher Agency in a Digital Age, Blair Matthews (University of St Andrews, UK)
10."Changing Lanes": Balancing between Roles of EAP Lecturer and Researcher in a Teaching Institution towards a Research University, Eric Cheung (College of Professional and Continuing Education, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
11. Responding to Students' Disciplinary Writing in a University-wide Writing Requirement: Negotiating Agency through Positioning, Shari Dureshahwar Lughmani (PolyU, Hong Kong) and Svetlana Chigaeva-Heddad (Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
12. Power and the Canadian EAP Practitioner: Multiethnography as Resistance? James N. Corcoran (York University, Canada), Jennifer J. MacDonald (Dalhousie University, Canada), Jonathan Mendelsohn and Leonardo Gomes
Conclusion: Engaging with Identity and Agency in a Collaborative Project, Laetitia Monbec (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Series Editors' Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction, Alex Ding (University of Leeds)
Part I: Mesocosms
1. A Socio-Analysis of EAP, Alex Ding (University of Leeds) and Laetitia Monbec(National University of Singapore, Singapore)
2. Collegial Connections and Ethical Entanglements: An Exploration of the Ethics of Scholarship in EAP, Bee Bond (University of Leeds, UK)
3. EAP Practitioners in the Global South: Participation, Positioning and Agency in the Context of 'Peripheral' Scholars and Scholarship, Namala Lakshmi Tilakaratna (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Part II: Microcosms
4. EAP Practitioners' Identity: From Social Class to Social Capital, Tanzeela Anbreen (University of Bedfordshire, UK) and Samina Ayub(Lahore College for Women University, Pakistan)
5. Trials and Tribulations of EAP Practitioners in Zimbabwe, Tambawoga C. Muchena (Midlands State University, Zimbabwe)
6. 'Be more Pirate': Harnessing the Power of Liminal Spaces in Creating Academic Literacy Practitioner Identity and Agency, Michelle Joubert and Sherran Clarence (University of the Free State, South Africa)
7. Finding Space and Voice: Duoethnographic Exploration of Teacher Agency in EAP, Iwona Winiarska-Pringle (University of Glasgow, UK) and Ania Rolinska (Glasgow School of Art, UK)
8. Respected Teachers or a Marginalized, Stigmatized Profession? An Exploration of UK EAP Practitioner Identity, Sarah Taylor (London School of Economics and Political Science, UK)
9. EAP Teacher Agency in a Digital Age, Blair Matthews (University of St Andrews, UK)
10."Changing Lanes": Balancing between Roles of EAP Lecturer and Researcher in a Teaching Institution towards a Research University, Eric Cheung (College of Professional and Continuing Education, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
11. Responding to Students' Disciplinary Writing in a University-wide Writing Requirement: Negotiating Agency through Positioning, Shari Dureshahwar Lughmani (PolyU, Hong Kong) and Svetlana Chigaeva-Heddad (Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
12. Power and the Canadian EAP Practitioner: Multiethnography as Resistance? James N. Corcoran (York University, Canada), Jennifer J. MacDonald (Dalhousie University, Canada), Jonathan Mendelsohn and Leonardo Gomes
Conclusion: Engaging with Identity and Agency in a Collaborative Project, Laetitia Monbec (National University of Singapore, Singapore)