Open AccessWhat is success?
Author(s) -
Kiyu Itoi
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
sfu educational review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1916-050X
DOI - 10.21810/sfuer.v11i1.593
Subject(s) - autoethnography , constructive , situated , negotiation , sociology , identity (music) , agency (philosophy) , nobody , pedagogy , transformative learning , community of practice , media studies , aesthetics , gender studies , social science , computer science , art , process (computing) , artificial intelligence , operating system
Autoethnography allows us to “go beyond simply looking at the artifacts or just the surface and to focus much more on the personal, the hidden, and the less obvious” (Lapidus, Kaveh, & Hirano, 2013, p. 34), and it is becoming more important to illustrate a constructive relationship between diverse professional communities, as English as a global language acquire local identities and local professional communities develop socially situated pedagogical practices (Canagarajah, 2012). This paper explores identity negotiation of the author, a transnational EAL student and a teacher through an autoethnography. Using concept of “audibility”, “agency”, “nobody”, and “somebody” (Kettle, 2005) and communities of practice (Lave & Wenger, 1991; Wenger, 1998), this paper unpacks the complexity of identity negotiation of an EAL student, and how it affected her teaching. It also provides an opportunity to rethink the definition of success.