Abstract
The extra-regional migration and movement of Jamaicans (Yaadis) to serve as English Language Teaching (ELT) professionals in Japan suggest that Yaadis have identities as both local and global, or glocal citizens. Yet, Yaadi voices are absent in the academic discourses of glocal citizenship, glocal citizenship education and ELT in respect of the competencies they possess and develop that facilitate their adaptation to life in Japan and that influence their work as ELT professionals. This paper thus proposes a framework of glocal competencies from the perspective of Jamaican ELT professionals in Japan. The rationale for the development of this framework was a deductive qualitative content analysis of relevant local, regional, and international competency frameworks. Through a Coloniality-Capital theoretical lens, which highlights how desires for the image and culture of former Western colonisers persist in forms of power, the framework is explicated with responses from 47 Yaadi ELT professionals to an online questionnaire, engaging Yaadis in critical reflections on the relationship between their lives in Japan, ELT roles and the concept of glocal citizenship. The findings illuminate the relevance of continued vigilance for the consideration of geo-racio-historic factors that cultivate the development of glocal competencies.
Presenters
Nadine Nicole MuschetteStudent, PhD, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Margaret Lo
Assistant Professor, Teacher Education and Leadership Learning Unit, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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KEYWORDS
JAMAICA, JAPAN, JET, ELT, GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP, GLOBAL COMPETENCE, GLOBAL EDUCATION
