Producing Place: Race, Empire, and TESOL Teacher Identities

The presenter draws on place as an analytic within TESOL teacher education to illustrate ways that ideologies of race and empire (including such processes as colonization, neocolonialism, globalization, and neoliberalism) are produced within TESOL. She argues that racialized and colonial formations of TESOL teacher identities underpin the rationale for the profession.

Listen to her discuss this presentation with Lavette Coney here.

Lavette Coney is currently the co-editor for SRIS and an ELL co-chair at the Fessenden School in West Newton, Massachusetts, where she facilitates the learning of students from a variety of countries, including South Korea, Mexico, Russia, Ukraine, and more. She also works with admissions, placement, and curriculum and founded an ethnic-based affinity group and race and gender focus group for students. Her research interests evolve around race and White privilege.