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"Early Career Teachers in Higher Education explores the experiences of Early Career Teachers (ECTs) through 13 personal teaching journeys from academics working across Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe and South America. This edited volume contains the subjective narrative of each contributor&#...
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Bloomsbury Academic,
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| Publisher Address: | London, UK : |
| Publication Dates: |
2023. ©2021 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"Early Career Teachers in Higher Education explores the experiences of Early Career Teachers (ECTs) through 13 personal teaching journeys from academics working across Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe and South America. This edited volume contains the subjective narrative of each contributor's entry into academia, their pedagogic practice and the development of their multiple teaching identities. Their multiple teaching identities provide a valuable resource for ECTs and academics around the world as they begin teaching in higher education, In addition, this edited book highlights contemporary issues, such as precarity, casualisation, fragmentation of academic responsibilities and intersectionality, that shape contemporary ECT workloads"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xiv, 226 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [185]-222) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781350225022 9781350129337 |
| Index Number: | LB1778 |
| CLC: | G645.12 |
| Call Number: | G645.12/E124 |
| Contents: | Foreword / N'Dri Therese Assie-Lumumba -- Introduction : early career teachers [ECTs] in higher education, Jody Crutchle, Zaki Nahaboo and Namrata Rao -- Part I : challenges of national/international contexts -- A Korean stranger in a Japanese classroom : developing as a teacher in a foreign country / Jongsung Kim -- Reverse brain-drain and early career frustrations in the Nigerian higher education : aspirations, compromises and challenges of a returnee / Amos Pofi -- My anatomy teaching journey from India to Britain : a reflection of a teacher, a seeker and a constructivist / Mandeep Gill-Sagoo -- Part II : precarious intersectionality -- Being a PhD student and a teacher in two UK universities : challenges and possibilities of liminal spaces of Belonging / Leah Burch -- Balancing teaching, culture and gender in Japan : prospects and challenges as an American female teacher abroad / Sarah R. Asada -- Othering and its Impact on teaching opportunities in Australia : gendered, classed and raced subject positions / Clarissa Carden and Diti Bhattacharya -- Part III : disrupting identities -- (Dis) empowering spaces : drawing on disabling experiences as an early career teacher with dwarfism / Erin Pritchard -- What has sexuality got to do with It? negotiating a professional identity as a day early career teacher / Ben Colliver -- Early career teachers as entrepreneurs in American higher education : the politician, comedian, and busker / Thomas Larsen -- Part IV : pedagogical predicaments -- From passionate engagement to chronic boredom in Polish academia : an overview of early-career motivation and systemic contributory factors / Mariusz Finkielsztein -- Developing as a critical pedagogue in Brazil : challenges, reflections and actions / Ana Zimmermann -- Learning from learners in China : teaching public policy to continuing education students / Diwen Xiao -- Transitioning from teaching young learners to trainee teachers in international HE : professional identity crises and continual development / Natalie Shaw -- Part VI : personal narratives in wider perspective -- Reflections on the early career teachers' journeys : challenges, experiences and strategies / Ann E. Austin. |