商品簡介
As part of its modernization efforts, the United Arab Emirates recently started training young women as English language teachers for its primary schools. After noting the historical relationship between female gender and teaching as a career in the US, Clarke (education, U. of Hong Kong) examines what he terms the heretofore "invisible" (i.e., in conventional analysis) social and political discourses constructing these student teachers' identities and their "community of practice." From their responses to questionnaires, he treats the role of the English language as "a ramp to a different world" for these teachers as agents of change. The foreword is by a U. of Michigan professor of education and international training. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Currently an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong, Matthew Clarke led the development and implementation of the new Bachelor of Education at the Higher Colleges of Technology in the United Arab Emirates between 1999 and 2006. Prior to working in teacher education, he taught in primary schools and language centres in the UK and Australia. His research interests include discourse analysis, identity, social theory, cultural studies and philosophy as well as language and literacy education.
