The thesis looks into the emotional work of teaching and where intersects with culture, environment, and teacher identity. More specifically, as an autoethnography, the writer contemplates his own personal past experiences, cultural identity, and identity as a foreigner and the emotional work involved in teaching in an ESL setting in South Korea.
The research methodology is the writer of the thesis as the research subject. The writer examines his emotional experiences leading up to and as a teacher refracted and filtered through the research literature