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Zusatztext This powerful book integrates scholarly analysis with the voices of early career teachers from a wide variety of roles and contexts. By honoring the diversity, precarity, and agency of early career teachers, this book offers significant lessons for both those becoming academic teachers and everyone who works with them. Informationen zum Autor Jody Crutchley is Lecturer in Modern History at Liverpool Hope University, UK. Zaki Nahaboo is Lecturer in Sociology at Birmingham City University, UK. Namrata Rao is Principal Lecturer in Education at Liverpool Hope University, UK. Vorwort Explores the personal teaching journeys of early career academics who work in various disciplines within higher education across the world. Zusammenfassung 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 personal narratives and testimonies presented here will 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures Notes on the Contributors Foreword, N'Dri Therese Assie-Lumumba (Cornell University, USA) Acknowledgements Introduction: Early Career Teachers [ECTs] in Higher Education, Jody Crutchley (Liverpool Hope University, UK), Zaki Nahaboo (Birmingham City University, UK) and Namrata Rao (Liverpool Hope University, UK) Part I: Challenges of National/International Contexts 1. A Korean Stranger in a Japanese Classroom: Developing as a Teacher in a Foreign Country, Jongsung Kim (Hiroshima University, Japan) 2. Reverse Brain-drain and Early Career Frustrations in the Nigerian Higher Education: Aspirations, Compromises and Challenges of a Returnee, Amos Pofi (Federal College of Education, Pankshin, Nigeria) 3. My Anatomy Teaching Journey from India to Britain: A Reflection of a Teacher, a Seeker and a Constructivist, Mandeep Gill-Sagoo (King’s College London, UK) Part II: Precarious Intersectionality 4. Being a PhD Student and a Teacher in Two UK Universities: Challenges and Possibilities of Liminal Spaces of Belonging, Leah Burch (University of Leeds, UK) 5. Balancing Teaching, Culture and Gender in Japan: Prospects and Challenges as an American Female Teacher Abroad, Sarah R. Asada (Kyoritsu Women's University, Japan) 6. Othering and its Impact on Teaching Opportunities in Australia: Gendered, Classed and Raced Subject Positions, Clarissa Carden and Diti Bhattacharya (Griffith University, Australia) Part III: Disrupting Identities 7. (Dis)Empowering Spaces: Drawing on Disabling Experiences as an Early Career Teacher with Dwarfism, Erin Pritchard (Liverpool Hope University, UK) 8. What Has Sexuality Got to Do With It? Negotiating a Professional Identity as a Gay Early Career Teacher, Ben Colliver (Birmingham City University, UK) 9. Early Career Teachers as Entrepreneurs in American Higher Education: The Politician, Comedian, and Busker, Thomas Larsen (University of Northern Iowa, USA) Part IV: Pedagogical Predicaments 10. From Passionate Engagement to Chronic Boredom in Polish Academia: An Overview of Early-Career Motivation and Systemic Contributory Factors, Mariusz Finkielsztein (University of Warsaw, Poland) 11. Devel...
