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Language Teacher Recognition - (New Perspectives on Language and Education) by Alison Stewart (Paperback)

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  • This book presents the career narratives of an under-researched group of teachers: immigrant Filipino teachers of English working mainly with young and very young learners in Japan.
  • About the Author: Alison Stewart is Professor of English Education at Gakushuin University, Japan.
  • 152 Pages
  • Psychology, Personality
  • Series Name: New Perspectives on Language and Education

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This book presents the career narratives of an under-researched group of teachers: immigrant Filipino teachers of English working mainly with young and very young learners in Japan. It provides a nuanced and revealing critique of poststructuralist views of identity and proposes recognition theories as an alternative perspective.



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This book presents the career narratives of an under-researched group of teachers: immigrant Filipino teachers of English working mainly with young and very young learners in Japan. It provides a nuanced and revealing critique of poststructuralist views of identity and proposes recognition theories as an alternative perspective. It explores the role of the community found in language teacher associations in the formation and strengthening of language teacher identity and reveals new insights into morality and social justice in language teacher identity. The narratives of the teachers and the communities of which they are part demonstrate how prejudice affects these teachers' lives, and how speaking about and celebrating success can affirm individual and group identity.



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...this is an engaging book that will pique or further the reader's interest in Filipino history and language teacher identity. It is an important publication that will go some way to filling the research gap on Filipino English teachers in Japan.

--Carey Finn and Tamagawa Gakuen "GALE Journal 2022 Vol. 14"

It's not often that the word "unputdownable" is heard in relation to an academic book, but this book had me engrossed from the moment I picked it up [...] I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in giving some thought to what it means to be, and to feel oneself to be, a teacher. Identity politics is of course a highly contested area just now, arousing strong feelings among many. Stewart offers a refreshingly new way of thinking about identity, through her critique of poststructural explanations, and through the concept of recognition, "the precondition for ontological security and social justice".

--Michael Carroll, Momoyama Gakuin University, Japan "Learning Learning, 28 (1)"

Stewart is bold in adopting an "identity politics perspective" to explain the central theme of the book, language teacher recognition. Stewart suggests that recognition involves a very strong attachment to the background the Filipino teachers were born into, as well as other attributes such as language identity, gender and social class that are both inscribed and ascribed to them. She effectively presents the stories of the interviewees to argue that feelings of prejudice and pride are fundamental to identity.

--Prumel Barbudo Yokohama City University, Japan and Stephanie Keith Lim, Miyazaki International College, Japan "Learning Learning, 28 (1)"

Stewart's book goes where previous language teacher identity books have not gone, focusing on an under-researched group, Filipino English teachers in Japan, while adopting an identity politics perspective which draws on the work of scholars such as Alex Honneth and Charles Taylor. Extremely well written, it is a must-read for anyone interested in language teacher identity.

-- "David Block, ICREA and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain"

This book provides readers with a new and critical perspective on migrant language teachers' professional identity within a host context, making the case that recognition theory illuminates social and psychological aspects of their identity [...] I found this book to be a valuable contribution to the gradually growing body of research examining the identity of teachers from ESL countries practising in EFL countries.

--Hohsung Choe, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea "ELT Journal, 2022"

In this important book Alison Stewart makes a wonderful job of using Filipino teachers' narratives to provide an insightful and nuanced critique of key ideas about language teacher identity. The reader is given a thought-provoking and highly readable account of the ways in which recognition theories can illuminate the phenomenon of identity in applied linguistics.-- "Siân Preece, UCL Institute of Education, UK"

Stewart's use of recognition theories and the Filipino English Teachers in Japan association as the contextual backdrop reinvigorates the field of language teacher identity, thus depicting the career narratives of seven Filipino English teachers in Japan. Ultimately, Stewart's work is an empowering and moral portrayal of those from a poor country teaching in a prosperous one, hence capturing the ideologies embedded in where privilege meets marginalization.-- "Gloria Park, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA"



About the Author



Alison Stewart is Professor of English Education at Gakushuin University, Japan. Her research interests include language teaching and identity and language teacher associations.

Dimensions (Overall): 9.2 Inches (H) x 6.15 Inches (W)
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Series Title: New Perspectives on Language and Education
Sub-Genre: Personality
Genre: Psychology
Number of Pages: 152
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
Format: Paperback
Author: Alison Stewart
Language: English
Street Date: September 16, 2025
TCIN: 1002955753
UPC: 9781836681496
Item Number (DPCI): 247-35-0568
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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