Bella Illesca
Biographic Data
| ID | 8955660 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bella Illesca |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bella |
| FAMILY NAME | Illesca |
| SIGNATURE | ILLESCA B |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6529-7878 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Reenvisioning teacher identity through hybrid professionalism: Towards equity in diverse educational fields
In Australian education, increasingly shaped by superdiverse, multicultural, multilingual, and performance-driven conditions, dominant models of teacher professionalism continue to marginalise teachers from culturally, linguistically, racially, gendered, and socially diverse backgrounds. This paper examines how teachers from minoritised groups negotiate professional identity within institutional discourses that inadequately reflect their lived ex…
Reflecting on My Identity as an English Teacher through Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own
This essay uses Virginia Woolf A Room of One’s Own to reflect on my identity as an English teacher. Woolf critiques the exclusion of women from the literary canon, exposing the cultural norms that marginalise them. Her work speaks to many aspects of my struggle as a woman and an English teacher to remain true to my ‘self’ (or to the ‘many selves’ that make me), offering a counterpoint to educational reforms that construct my identity in a way tha…
Beyond Measure: The Potential of Storytelling to Challenge Standardised English
This essay uses storytelling as a mode of inquiry to explore how students with languages other than English and with diasporic experiences and identities negotiate a pathway for themselves in a relentlessly Anglophone environment. I share a story that provides a small window into the everyday work of an English teacher in a large, linguistically diverse school with a large Muslim community on the outskirts of Melbourne. I explore the contexts in …
Stepping Inside an English Classroom: Investigating the Everyday Experiences of an English Teacher
This essay presents an English teacher’s inquiry into her professional practice in an institutional setting that is heavily regulated by standards-based reforms. Rather than something external to her, she sees those reforms as part of an internal conflict that affects her capacity to be fully responsive to her students. In dialogue with a colleague, she writes stories that reaffirm the deeply relational character of her work, both as an ethically…
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Stepping Inside an English Classroom: Investigating the Everyday Experiences of an English Teacher
This essay presents an English teacher’s inquiry into her professional practice in an institutional setting that is heavily regulated by standards-based reforms. Rather than something external to her, she sees those reforms as part of an internal conflict that affects her capacity to be fully responsive to her students. In dialogue with a colleague, she writes stories that reaffirm the deeply relational character of her work, both as an ethically…
Beyond Measure: The Potential of Storytelling to Challenge Standardised English
This essay uses storytelling as a mode of inquiry to explore how students with languages other than English and with diasporic experiences and identities negotiate a pathway for themselves in a relentlessly Anglophone environment. I share a story that provides a small window into the everyday work of an English teacher in a large, linguistically diverse school with a large Muslim community on the outskirts of Melbourne. I explore the contexts in …
Reenvisioning teacher identity through hybrid professionalism: Towards equity in diverse educational fields
In Australian education, increasingly shaped by superdiverse, multicultural, multilingual, and performance-driven conditions, dominant models of teacher professionalism continue to marginalise teachers from culturally, linguistically, racially, gendered, and socially diverse backgrounds. This paper examines how teachers from minoritised groups negotiate professional identity within institutional discourses that inadequately reflect their lived ex…
Reflecting on My Identity as an English Teacher through Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own
This essay uses Virginia Woolf A Room of One’s Own to reflect on my identity as an English teacher. Woolf critiques the exclusion of women from the literary canon, exposing the cultural norms that marginalise them. Her work speaks to many aspects of my struggle as a woman and an English teacher to remain true to my ‘self’ (or to the ‘many selves’ that make me), offering a counterpoint to educational reforms that construct my identity in a way tha…
Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (2 works) · Pedagogy (2 works) · Qualitative research (2 works) · Semi-structured interview (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (2 works) · Cultural diversity (1 works) · Digital Storytelling and Education (1 works) · Discourse analysis (1 works) · Educational research (1 works)