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I Wouldn't Want Anybody to Know
Native English Teaching in Japan

I WOULDN'T WANT ANYBODY TO KNOW cover picture Edited by Eva P. Bueno & Terry Caesar
Preface by David Galef
Published 2003 by JPGSpress, Tokyo
252 pages, A5, paper, $25.00
ISBN10: 4-900178-21-7
ISBN13: 978-4900178212
Teaching is one thing. Writing about it is another.
I Wouldn't Want Anybody to Know aims to dramatize the difference. It is particularly important with respect to teaching English in Japan. How can there possibly be anything new to say about this subject? Simple: its specific circumstances -- exactly where the language is taught, by whom, for what reasons, and with what people -- can be restored. This collection of personal essays aims to provide a human face to the teaching of English in Japan by foreigners. Not all of them are critical of what they do. And yet any reader will soon understand why several of the authors included must adopt pseudonyms in order to write about their experience in the first place. There is a vast silence about teaching English in Japan which can only be broken at the risk of losing one's job. Native teaching begins with this fact. But writing about it need not end there, as this collection of candid, personal, reflective essays demonstrates, as if for the first time.

CONTENTS
Preface - David Galef
Introduction - Terry Caesar & Eva P. Bueno
OVERTURES
Duck Gets the Word - Fritz Logan
Eat this Amsterdam! Persisting in Japan - Reza Fiyouzat
GENERAL PERSPECTIVES
A Box of Tissues - Michael Pronko
Looking Back to See the Future - Michael Narron
SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES
A Leading Language School - Eva P. Bueno
"X" marks the spot - James K. Doe
Three Universities, No Position - Mary S.
ALTERED STATES
Performing the Part of the English Teacher: The Role of the Anthropologist and the Anthropologist of Roles in Japan - Brian K. McVeigh
Teaching Film: Marlon Brando and the Ready For Anything Girls - Alan Fisher
COMIC RELIEF
Choco-la-to
Craps and Claps
Caracas
Napoleon's Horse
Waving the Pen
Tanshin Funin
QUARRELS
Giving English the Business - Laurie Kim Delaney
The Drawbacks of Being a Native Teacher -  Charles Kowalski
Learning It All Over Again Through English - Andrew Baker
GRADUATE LEVEL
Downloading a Doctorate - Terry Caesar
The Failure of Failure - Jan Gordon
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Notes to the Introduction
Bibliography
Contributors
While teaching English, some of the roles I feel I have been assigned include: kindergarten teacher ("Everyone sit down and be quiet"); jail warden (enforcer of administration rules); prison guard ("Just look like you're going along with the program for four years and you're out"); drill sergeant ("roll call!"); babysitter ("Everyone please be good"); parent (wondering if sleeping students ate breakfast); big brother ("I'm here to help you develop your abilities"); coach ("Just don't sit there, repeat after me"); entertainer (I know how to grab their attention: "Hey, look how funny I am"); counselor ("You haven't come to class in one month; is there something wrong?"); and therapist ("Why do you stare back at me without answering when I ask you a simple question?"). But the one role that I often have trouble convincing myself that I am really performing is English instructor at a university (though, of course, there were a few times when I felt as if I was "really" being an English instructor).
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