1月20日(土)
|Kobe Gakuin University-MINT 17th floor
Gender in ELT in Japan
Black Women, Intersectionality & ELT in Japan by Dr. Avril Haye Matsui (Aichi Prefectural University) and Am I coming out now? Building inclusive environments through strategic self-disclosure by Yaya Yao (Kyushu University)
Time & Location
2024年1月20日 14:00 – 17:00 JST
Kobe Gakuin University-MINT 17th floor , 7-chōme-1-1 Kumoidōri, Chuo Ward, Kobe, Hyogo 651-0096, Japan
About the Event
Black Women, Intersectionality & ELT in Japan
In this presentation, Dr. Haye-Matsui will present her research on the lived experiences of nine Black women of the African Diaspora who work in Japan’s English language teaching industry. Using intersectionality (Crenshaw, 1989, Collins & Bilge, 2016) as a theoretical lens, she will report on how her study sheds light on how Black female teachers' sociocultural identities can impact workplace experiences and self-perceived identities in Japanese educational contexts. She will discuss how these intersections provoked differing perceptions of Blackness among the participants and how this resulted in various interpretations of race and racism. Additionally, she will discuss how the intersection of her participants' race and gender influenced their experiences within their various workplaces and often their approaches to pedagogy.
This session encourages educators to reflect on how their own sociocultural identities impacts how, and what they teach and how they may be perceived. Time…