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At three different times spanning three decades I travelled from Australia to Japan to teach English. I travelled not only to teach, but also to experience the exhilaration of being exposed to new places, culture, settings, and human relationships. A journey to another land, and the encounter with difference that it affords, is an embodied and affective experience that shifts one’s perspective and activates an embodied thinking and reflecting.
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Raphael, J. (2017). ‘This is a Banana’. In: Araki, N. (eds) Diversity in Japanese Education. Critical New Literacies: The Praxis of English Language Teaching and Learning (Pelt). SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-059-2_9
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