Experiences of immigrant professors : challenges, cross-cultural differences, and lessons for success / edited by Charles B. Hutchison.
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Routledge,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 The Private and Professional Lives of Foreign-Born Professors: From Abstractions to the Practical; 2 Foreign-Born Professors and Their Quests for a Social and Psychological Home: Integrating Social, Cultural, and Professional Dimensions of Life; 3 A Portrait of the Life and Work of Expatriate Educators in Cambodia; 4 The "Unusual" Professors: The Experiences and Impact of Foreign Professors in Post-Franco Spain; 5 Conversations on Ethnicity, Adaptation, and Belonging: Autoethnography at the Base of the Ivory Tower.
- 6 Voices From Behind the Scenes: How Foreign-Born English Teachers Find Their Place in the French Education System7 Challenges and Self-Efficacy of Female East Asian-Born Faculty in American Universities; 8 The True Meaning of Integrity: Reflections on a Professional Life in Japan; 9 Moroccan Imams and the "Girl Professor": Positionality and Epistemai in a Classroom-Based Cross-Cultural Exchange of Knowledge; 10 Not so Fast: Navigating the Complexities of Teaching in an American University as a Foreign-Born Teacher Educator.
- 11 My Professional Teaching Experience in the United States, 1977-2014: The Case of an African-Born Immigrant12 Negotiating the Trilogy of Blackness, "Africanness," and "Accentness": A "Native-Alien" Professor's Tale; 13 From Essential and Central to Constructivist Trenches: Navigating the Transnational Contexts of the Instructional Practice of a Foreign-Born Professor; 14 Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack of African-Born Professor's Identity in the U.S. Academe; 15 Not an Easy Road: Journey of a Jamaican Academic.
- 16 "Almost American": The Challenges of a Canadian Professor Working in the United States17 Drained Brains: Canadian Professors in the United States; 18 Identity Construction of a Second-Language Educator; 19 My American Academia: At Home and Abroad; 20 Musings of a Foreign-Born Philosopher in the American Academy: Come è duro calle / lo scendere e 'l salir per l'altrui scale; 21 The Unified Voices of Immigrant Professors and Their Cross-Cultural Teaching Lives: Lessons Learned; List of Contributors; Index.