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… I was the girl who was good at English, so I used to do my peers’ homework and compositions. At the time I went to a public school, and I felt that my classes were not as advanced as those of my neighborhood friends who studied in private schools or in other public schools. I already knew most of the things the teacher taught us, so I thought that English was too easy. Maybe that is why I pursued a career in languages. This makes me think of students at public schools who succeed at school, but their experiences of learning are ignored—those schools are not failure scenarios …
… 68 U ni ve rs id ad D is tr ita l F ra nc is co J os é de C al da s Introduction Hearing the voices of private and public school English language (EL) teachers regarding their experiences in their teaching sites has mainly focused on … Tolima, a relatively small city compared to Bogotá, the capital. After graduating from a 2-stratum (lower middle class) public school, I enrolled in a B.A. in English at Universidad del Tolima, a public university in my hometown. Almost by the end of the degree, I started working as a part-time teacher at a private …
… to the oxygen in our air can be multiple when situated. Breathing in the workplace, where you live, or when taking public transporta- tion is different. By analogy, emotions are then sensitive to contexts; they are evidence of knowledge, … was, for me, wonderfully subversive (…) First, because although it is kind of expected that universities (particularly public ones) are sites for freedom of speech, and liberal (as opposed to conservative) positions, overtly stating that a … and relationships with institutions, I simply say that from what I narrate, I have elements of two worlds: the public and the private, which are normally seen as antagonistic, and that subverts the discourse of gender representation in …