Early Career Teachers in Higher Education

List of Figures Notes on the Contributors Foreword, N'Dri Therese Assie-Lumumba (Cornell University, USA) Acknowledgements Introduction: Early Career Teachers [ECTs] in Higher Education, Jody Crutchley (Liverpool Hope University, UK), Zaki Nahaboo (Birmingham City University, UK) and Namrata Rao (Liverpool Hope University, UK) Part I: Challenges of National/International Contexts 1. A Korean Stranger in a Japanese Classroom: Developing as a Teacher in a Foreign Country, Jongsung Kim (Hiroshima University, Japan) 2. Reverse Brain-drain and Early Career Frustrations in the Nigerian Higher Education: Aspirations, Compromises and Challenges of a Returnee, Amos Pofi (Federal College of Education, Pankshin, Nigeria) 3. My Anatomy Teaching Journey from India to Britain: A Reflection of a Teacher, a Seeker and a Constructivist, Mandeep Gill-Sagoo (King’s College London, UK) Part II: Precarious Intersectionality 4. Being a PhD Student and a Teacher in Two UK Universities: Challenges and Possibilities of Liminal Spaces of Belonging, Leah Burch (University of Leeds, UK) 5. Balancing Teaching, Culture and Gender in Japan: Prospects and Challenges as an American Female Teacher Abroad, Sarah R. Asada (Kyoritsu Women's University, Japan) 6. Othering and its Impact on Teaching Opportunities in Australia: Gendered, Classed and Raced Subject Positions, Clarissa Carden and Diti Bhattacharya (Griffith University, Australia) Part III: Disrupting Identities 7. (Dis)Empowering Spaces: Drawing on Disabling Experiences as an Early Career Teacher with Dwarfism, Erin Pritchard (Liverpool Hope University, UK) 8. What Has Sexuality Got to Do With It? Negotiating a Professional Identity as a Gay Early Career Teacher, Ben Colliver (Birmingham City University, UK) 9. Early Career Teachers as Entrepreneurs in American Higher Education: The Politician, Comedian, and Busker, Thomas Larsen (University of Northern Iowa, USA) Part IV: Pedagogical Predicaments 10. From Passionate Engagement to Chronic Boredom in Polish Academia: An Overview of Early-Career Motivation and Systemic Contributory Factors, Mariusz Finkielsztein (University of Warsaw, Poland) 11. Developing as a Critical Pedagogue in Brazil: Challenges, Reflections and Actions, Ana Zimmermann (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil) 12. Learning from Learners in China: Teaching Public Policy to Continuing Education Students, Diwen Xiao (Sun Yat-sen University, China) 13. Transitioning from Teaching Young Learners to Trainee Teachers in International HE: Professional Identity Crises and Continual Development, Natalie Shaw (NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands) Part VI: Personal Narratives in Wider Perspective 14. Reflections on the Early Career Teachers’ Journeys: Challenges, Experiences and Strategies, Ann E. Austin (Michigan State University, USA) References Index