Transnational English Teachers in Central Mexico: Constructing a Professional Identity

Frausto Hernandez, Isaac

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Transnational English Teachers in Central Mexico: Constructing a Professional Identity

Isaac Frausto Hernandez * i.fraustohernandez@ugto.mx * ORCID: 0000-0001-9984-7962
Universidad de Guanajuato, Division of Social Sciences and Humanities, Language Department, MEXICO

Open Journal for Educational Research, 2019, 3(2), 95-108 * https://doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojer.0302.05095h
Online Published Date: 14 December 2019

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KEY WORDS: transnationalism, transnationals, transnational English teachers, professional identity.

ABSTRACT:
This article aims to highlight how those who have migrated between both Mexico and the United States, and whom will be referred to as transnationals, arrive to an understanding of their professional identity developing as English teachers throughout central Mexico. A qualitative approach was selected to explore the lived epistemologies of the participants and the construction and reconstruction of their professional identity through phenomenology. The data suggests that the past migrating experiences of the participants play a crucial role in how they are viewed within their English teaching practice.

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR:
Isaac Frausto Hernandez, Universidad de Guanajuato. Division of Social Sciences and Humanities. Language Deparment; Calzada de Guadalupe s/n; Zona Centro; Guanajuato, MEXICO. E-mail: i.fraustohernandez@ugto.mx.

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