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- Title
The Margins as Third Space: EAP Teacher Professionalism in Canadian Universities.
- Authors
MacDonald, Jennifer
- Abstract
Teachers of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) in the Canadian university setting often experience professional marginalization in terms of lack of status, clarity of mandate, or administrative home within their institutions. Despite having broadly benefitted the ESL/EAL sector in Canada, traditional trait-focused professionalization efforts have been less effective at countering this marginalization of EAP teachers within our universities. However, these margins could be reimagined as a pedagogically innovative space for some university EAP teachers to define their professionalism in terms not of what they are, but what they do. Recharacterizing the margins as a third space (Whitchurch, 2008) could allow a degree of freedom for EAP teachers to best exercise their professionalism on their own terms: a postmodern professionalism focused on engagement, service, and collaboration.
- Subjects
CANADA; PROFESSIONALISM; ENGLISH teachers; UNIVERSITIES &; colleges; PROFESSIONAL orientations
- Publication
TESL Canada Journal / Revue TESL du Canada, 2016, Vol 34, Issue 1, p106
- ISSN
0826-435X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
1018806/tesl.v34i1.1256