Author: Peter Edwards

Originally from Washington D.C., Peter Edwards received his MA in literature from UC Berkeley, in the USA, and his PhD in applied linguistics from the University of Nottingham, in England, and has spent the past 23 years teaching and researching in East Asia. Study abroad, critical thinking, and MBE Studies (Mind, Brain, & Education) hold some of his current attention. He was recently on assignment in Cali, Colombia, as an English Specialist consultant through the U.S. Embassy, and is currently helping create a graduate language learning program at Mount Kenya University in Kigali, Rwanda.

Professional Development via the Developing World

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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KO-7 Challenge!

Hi everyone!

Peter is giving a presentation in Seoul, South Korea for KOTESOL 2017:

His topic is “Professional Development via the Developing World”. As part of the presentation he wrote an extended summary and made a survey/challenge. You can check them both out here:

https://goo.gl/forms/ReTZQYimv9ETSy7i2

Learn what Peter means by “Celebrating Ignorance “.