ABSTRACT
This is a new chapter with sections from the original Chapter 3, “The Struggle of Subjectivities: Narratives of Tension,” included. This chapter is a description of the first “genre of discourse” examined from the 2016 research. Narratives of opposition are defined and theorized, and then excerpts from the six participants’ interviews are cited to explicate how the 2016 participants used narratives to explore felt contradictions between local concerns and global concerns, teaching practice and theory, and empathy and control in the classroom. These narratives of opposition are represented and explicated with two author-created figures. Conclusions state that the participants seem comfortable living in moments and spaces of contradiction and ambiguity, as they are able to inhabit contradictory subjectivities simultaneously.
