Identities of Teachers Who Link Japanese and Korean Students Together

The Analysis of the Practice of Classes and Interviews Identities of teachers who create a link between Japanese and Korean students: an analysis of classes and interviews of teachers of neighboring languages

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to examine the identities of a Korean teacher who teaches Japanese at a South Korean high school and a Japanese teacher who teaches Korean at a Japanese high school. In this research I treated the identities of teachers as their own positioning in a changing process and examined them from both the inside and the outside of their standpoints. The results showed that both teachers had a major educational objective and their educational orientation emerged from the transformative process of their own identity.