{"id":21,"date":"2010-01-28T17:07:14","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T17:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edtechandtesol.info\/phd\/?page_id=21"},"modified":"2020-11-13T08:53:21","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T08:53:21","slug":"javier-eljee","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/?page_id=21","title":{"rendered":"Javier, Eljee (MA and PhD alumna)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMG_0433\"<\/a>My name is Eljee Javier and I completed my PhD (thesis, viva and corrections) in February 2015. You can say that I’m living proof that you can finish a PhD.\u00a0For my doctorate I was on the 1+3 PhD programme as GTRA Studentship Award. Prior to that I was a MA TESOL (2007) graduate from this very same LTE group. Currently, I teach at The University of Manchester on different postgraduate programmes.<\/p>\n

My journey started in 2002.\u00a0\u00a0I was fresh\u00a0out of university, having graduated from 4 year education degree and yet\u00a0was working long hours\u00a0managing a coffee shop.\u00a0 At the time I didn’t think it mattered that I wasn’t teaching.\u00a0I was young, \u00a0independent, and making my own way in the world!\u00a0 My \u201cAH-HA\u201d moment arrived around 5:30am\u00a0while I was opening the coffee shop.\u00a0 It was\u00a0a dark, cold winter morning and I remember thinking – with great honesty and a degree of desperation – that I didn’t want to do this for the rest of my life.<\/p>\n

So I enrolled onto a one month, TESOL teacher training course as preparation to go overseas.\u00a0 (Why it takes one month to qualify as an English language teacher vs. four years for to qualify as a teacher is another discussion).\u00a0 After the course I applied for overseas teaching posts, eager to leave as soon as possible to start my new career as an English language teacher. \u00a0The waiting\u00a0turned into a month…and\u00a0then\u00a0three months.\u00a0 It would be this cycle of filling in applications, then gaining acceptance with a request for a photo, sending my photo and then being rejected. \u00a0I was wondering why I was being turned down for literally every EFL post.\u00a0Clearly frustrated I finally asked one of the recruitment agencies why I wasn\u2019t getting any job offers despite my qualifications?\u00a0\u00a0I remember the answer as clear as day:<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, we don\u2019t really hire Asian looking teachers. Sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n

And so began my journey to find out why this occurs\u00a0and why it seems to be accepted in the TESOL profession. Eventually, I did get a teaching post in China and worked for\u00a0a great school!\u00a0\u00a0Several years later\u00a0I enrolled onto the MA TESOL course in 2006.\u00a0 During my MA studies, my main interests were focused on the identity of visible ethnic minority native English speaking teachers (or VEM-NEST for short).\u00a0 I wanted to make sense of my own experiences as a native teacher of colour and see if others, with similar backgrounds like me, shared a common ground.<\/p>\n

Recently I completed my thesis, titled “Narratively explored role identities of visible ethnic minority native English speaking teachers in TESOL”<\/em> in which I continued to study this particular group of teachers and implications my study has on the TESOL profession.<\/p>\n

For updates and further information please visit my blog\u00a0http:\/\/eljeejavier.com<\/a>\u00a0or follow me on Twitter <\/a>(@eljeejavier).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My name is Eljee Javier and I completed my PhD (thesis, viva and corrections) in February 2015. You can say that I’m living proof that you can finish a PhD.\u00a0For my doctorate I was on the 1+3 PhD programme as GTRA Studentship Award. Prior to that I was a MA TESOL (2007) graduate from this very same LTE group. Currently, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"parent":9917,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P865eh-l","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10679,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions\/10679"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}