English Teacher : subjetividad e inglés en Bogotá

Abstract

Faced with the issue of subjectivity, this deep analysis shows that the subjectivity of the English teacher is much more complex than what the State's policies and programs want to show us. An English teacher is much more than the result of a (foreign) proficiency exam. This book allows us to notice that the subjectivity of the English teacher, which traditionally (not only in Colombia, but also in other latitudes) has been constructed as finite, finished, empty, is in reality fluid, multiple, with an infinite number of strata. This means that many English teachers in the country are committed to the fight for the dignity of the profession, to claim their rights as speakers of a language like English, their particularities regarding the uses and practices of that language, and who refuse to comply with the superficiality that the English teacher label entails. This book is therefore a must read for researchers, teacher educators and teachers in training, as each and every one will find, In addition to the reconstruction of the discontinuities made by the authors, other fissures, other discontinuities that would be worth exploring.