Abstract
This paper considers how a particular understanding of personality, as manifest in the way discourses about personality types are circulated and employed, may serve as a foundation for rationalizing the logic of human capital and its concomitant inequalities. Focusing on the recent popularity of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) in South Korea and the way it is adopted in online content offering advice on English language learning, this paper suggests that a conceptualization of personality as simultaneously enduring and inherent, on the one hand, and standardized and technologized, on the other, allows personality testing and personality type to serve as moral technologies of self that conceal the contradictions underlying the promotion of English language learning as a key to developing one’s human capital in neoliberal Korean society.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Being/becoming better people: personality, morality and language education
- English and ‘personality development’: the hyper-individualization and de-politicization of social mobility in India
- Personality as technology of self: MBTI and English language learning in South Korea
- Becoming/being a care worker: personality in a language training for migrant job seekers in Flanders
- Caring and loving teachers online: personality in the feminized labour of Filipina English Language teachers
- “Looking like a boarding school student”: the construction of unequal personhood in language policy in education
- Discursive formation of personalities: life trajectories of a transnational doctoral student between the UK and China
- The “pedagogy of personality”: becoming better people in the English language teaching and learning space
- Varia
- Collaborative autoethnography in applied linguistics: reflecting on research practice
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Being/becoming better people: personality, morality and language education
- English and ‘personality development’: the hyper-individualization and de-politicization of social mobility in India
- Personality as technology of self: MBTI and English language learning in South Korea
- Becoming/being a care worker: personality in a language training for migrant job seekers in Flanders
- Caring and loving teachers online: personality in the feminized labour of Filipina English Language teachers
- “Looking like a boarding school student”: the construction of unequal personhood in language policy in education
- Discursive formation of personalities: life trajectories of a transnational doctoral student between the UK and China
- The “pedagogy of personality”: becoming better people in the English language teaching and learning space
- Varia
- Collaborative autoethnography in applied linguistics: reflecting on research practice