[Edling] Language Teacher Agency Book Proposal

[Laura Dubcovsky]

Hello Manka,
I've just retired from the School of Education/teaching preparation
program, where I have worked in the preparation of bilingual
Spanish/English teachers in California.
Your call is very important to me, because it opens a dialogue, very much
needed, especially now that I feel isolated. I was compiling my field and
research notes, when I noticed that the due date has just passed (Sept 30).
Will you allow me to submit the abstract tomorow, Monday 3rd?
I will really appreciate your flexibility, mainly to have an audience to
whom speak and with whom reflect
Best Wishes
Laura Duncovsky
<lauradubcovsky at gmail.com>

On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 8:01 AM, Manka Varghese <mankav at u.washington.edu>
wrote:

> CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
> Theorizing and Analyzing Language Teacher Agency (Tentative Title)
> Submission Deadline: September 30, 2016
> Editors:
> Dr. Hayriye Kayi-Aydar (University of Arizona)
> Dr. Xuesong (Andy) Gao (University of Hong Kong)
> Dr. Elizabeth Miller (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
> Dr. Manka Varghese (University of Washington)
> Dr. Gergana Vitanova (University of Central Florida)
> Teachers play a vital role in making decisions about instruction,
> curriculum changes, and, in some contexts, educational reforms and
> language policies. However, their decision-making does not simply
> happen. They draw from a variety of sources to make decisions, and their
> agency is socially constructed and shaped. Although the concept of
> agency has been theorized extensively in various academic disciplines
> (e.g., sociology, philosophy, economics, anthropology, etc.) and from
> diverse perspectives, teacher agency, and second/foreign language
> teacher agency, in particular, has been neither well theorized nor
> conceptualized. Furthermore, in the current literature on second/foreign
> language teacher agency, the focus has been limited to the discussions
> of professionalism (e.g., Morgan & Saunders, 2014), policy and
> implementation (e.g., Hamid & Nguyen, 2016; Van Huy, Hamid, & Renshaw,
> 2016), or educational change (e.g., Kitade, 2015; Liyanage, Bartlett,
> Walker, & Guo, 2015). This volume aims to address this gap by providing
> an in-depth conceptualization of “second/foreign language teacher
> agency” through theoretical and empirical research.
> We are seeking proposals for chapters that address the construct of
> language teacher agency through theoretical and/or empirical research in
> second language studies. In particular, we are interested in chapters
> that draw on a range of theories of or approaches (e.g., activity
> theory, positioning theory, feminist theory, etc.) to language teacher
> agency that expand our understanding of the concept as well as
> manuscripts that present varying analytic approaches adopted in
> empirical studies (e.g., discourse studies, narrative inquiry, systemic
> functional linguistics, etc.). Chapters can analyze the connection of
> agency to other relevant topics, such as teacher identity, emotions,
> teacher cognition, positioning, accountability, curriculum change,
> language policy, etc.
>  Guidelines for Chapter Proposal Submission
> You are invited to submit a 500-word proposal by September 30, 2016
> containing the following information:
> Book section to which your chapter is being submitted (theoretical OR
> analytical focus)
> Proposal chapter title
> Author name(s) and Affiliation(s)
> Overview of chapter
> 100-word biography for each author
> Authors of accepted proposal will be notified by November 1, 2016.
> This volume has been discussed with an internationally reputable
> publisher. Once chapter proposals are finalized, a full book proposal
> will be sent to the publisher. Upon acceptance by the publisher,
> potential chapter authors will be invited to submit full chapters (up to
> 8,000 words) and will be sent guidelines for preparing chapters along
> with submission deadlines (approximately three months from
> notification). Chapters should be original work and should not be
> submitted for publication elsewhere. All submitted chapters will be
> reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be
> requested to serve as reviewers for this book project. Inquiries and
> chapter proposals can be submitted electronically (Word document) to the
> editors:langteacheragency at gmail.com
>
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