English Teaching: Practice and Critique
The making of a multicultural English teacher
Yohanes Nugroho Widiyanto (Widya Mandala Catholic University, Surabaya, Indonesia)
This teacher narrative tells the story of the
making of a multicultural English teacher, beginning with the author's
roots in a remote village in central Java and tracing his journey
through a range of educational institutions. In a series of critical
reflections, the author discusses a range of social and cultural
influences as these impacts on his emerging identity as both English
teacher and speaker of a range of languages. These critical reflections
constitute a kind of self-study, where the author discusses in a
self-reflexive way the sorts of discourses at work that work to
construct his identity in a range of different settings.