Engaging with work in English studies : an issue-based approach /: an issue-based approach. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Alastair Henry, Åke Persson.
• Editors: Henry, Alastair; Persson, Åke
• Contents: 1 Introduction: Engaging with Work in Worlds of ChangePart I Identities 2 'Imagine being so suddenly useless': Unemployment, Vulnerability and the Irish Financial Crash in Donal Ryan's The Spinning Heart 3 Authenticity at Work: English Teachers' Experiences of Authentic and Inauthentic Acting 4 'We do no harm, we say what we want, and we get paid for it': Academic Work and Dignity in Stoner by John Williams 5 Working with Identity Work: Supporting Professional Identity Development in Teacher Education Part II Oppositions and Transformations 6 The Superhero and the Tiger Mom: Examining the Relation Between Parental Expectations and Career Choices in Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew's The Shadow Hero 7 Changing English, Changing Challenges: The Work of Teaching English in a Context of Diverse Experiences 8 Interpreting the Lives of Working Children in James Joyce's Ulysses 9 Global English in the Workplace: Introducing the Concepts of 'Workplace English as a Lingua Franca' (WELF), and 'Successful WELF Users' 10 From 'Mayday' to #MeToo: Sexual Harassment in Margaret Atwood's Dystopian Workplaces in The Handmaid's Tale, The Testaments and The Heart Goes Last.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 420; English language
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030697204
• Related ISBNs: 9783030697198
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