"It's not like this here": teaching a Youth Lens in South Korea. Issue 3 (11th June 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Murfield, Ryan
• Is Part Of: English teaching. Volume 19:Issue 3(2020)
• Page Start: 317
• Page End: 330
• Publication Date: 2020-06-11
• Subjects: Positionality -- Critical literacy -- International education -- Affective responses -- Secondary literacy -- Youth lens; English language -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; 428.0071
• DOI: 10.1108/ETPC-03-2020-0018
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2059-5727

Abstract

Abstract : Purpose: This paper aims to identify challenges in a first attempt at teaching the Youth Lens in a secondary English classroom in South Korea. Design/methodology/approach: This paper includes the author's observations of a senior English class in an international school in South Korea. Findings: The author advocates that intersections of time, geography and culture have a significant influence that cannot be ignored when teaching about adolescence. Additionally, when bringing a Youth Lens into the classroom teachers need to be prepared to fully embrace its embedded questions of power between youth and adults. Originality/value: This paper extends existing academic conversation on a Youth Lens to include both an international setting and instances in which the teacher is not of the majority demographic in the classroom.