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Surviving teaching: Learning from Japanese native-speaker teachers

Yasuko Okamura and Judi Miller
Abstract: 

Starting teaching in a new country and a new culture is like being a beginning teacher again. If you come from a Confucian culture where teachers are automatically respected, the New Zealand classroom comes as a shock. How do teachers from Japan survive, adapt and thrive in New Zealand schools, and how can principals support them?

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