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‘I Want to Make the Invisible Visible’: Teacher Motivation in Argentinian Prison Education

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International Perspectives on Teaching English in Difficult Circumstances

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Abstract

Prison education seems underrepresented in education, learning, and teaching journals and edited collections. As a teacher of English as a foreign language in Argentina, I decided to explore English language teaching (ELT) through a focus on teacher motivation in prisons.

Based on the two experiences reported in this chapter, social motivation and collaborative actions may help teachers involved in prison education and other less favoured settings perceive themselves as active contributors to the dynamics of social participation. Teachers may feel motivated to work under difficult circumstances when their drive to work for the common good, sense of citizenship, collaboration, and social responsibility are so high that challenges are perceived as new opportunities for professional but, above all, personal development.

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  1. University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

    Darío Luis Banegas

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  1. Department of Education, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom

    Kuchah Kuchah

  2. English Language Center, Taibah University, Madina, South Africa

    Fauzia Shamim

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Banegas, D.L. (2018). ‘I Want to Make the Invisible Visible’: Teacher Motivation in Argentinian Prison Education. In: Kuchah, K., Shamim, F. (eds) International Perspectives on Teaching English in Difficult Circumstances. International Perspectives on English Language Teaching. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53104-9_7

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