Abstract
This chapter is an overview of a study conducted by the author as part of a Doctorate in Education in the context of a Modern Language Centre (MLC) in the UK. The study is framed within a post-structuralist ontological and epistemological framework (Braidotti 2011a, b, 2018; Baumann 2000, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1987; Giddens Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1991) and employs a psychosocial approach to data collection and analysis (Bainbridge and West Minding a Gap, Psychoanalysis and Education. Karnac, London, 2012; Frosh Psychoanalysis Outside the Clinic, Interventions in Psychosocial Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2010; Hollway and Jefferson Doing Qualitative Research Differently. A Psychosocial Approach. Sage, London, 2013). The main focus of the chapter is a deep-data analysis of the three auto/biographical participants’ narrative accounts of their personal journeys into becoming language professionals. A key aspect of the research is represented by the researcher’s own reflectivity within the research process (Hellawell in Teach High Educ 11:4, 483–494, 2006; West and Merrill Using Biographical Methods in Social Research. Sage, London, 2009).
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