Peter A. Edwards, PhD
For KOTESOL International Conference, 2017
Because the so-called “developing world” often confronts us with our own ignorance, navigating those wide gaps in our knowledge can benefit our careers in English. While tackling this concept of development at worldwide and personal levels, consider your entire career in education as a story. Professional development progresses over time, and resembles a narrative that needs both context and motivational force to keep it moving. Settings, and more specifically changes in setting, impact stories from William Shakespeare, to Patty Jenkins, to your career. This presentation argues that if your career-story has at least one “cornerstone setting” in the developing world, that setting will give your story a particularly potent force: singularity.
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