Manufacturing complicity: an analytic autoethnography of emotional labour and moral injury in VET-TESOL education
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This paper examines a profound contradiction in Australian TESOL teacher education: the rift between TESOL as a profession, represented by degree-level standards, and its reduction to a vocational competency within the VET sector’s audit-driven framework.
Recommended citation: Cui, S. (2026). Manufacturing complicity: an analytic autoethnography of emotional labour and moral injury in VET-TESOL education. Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/13636820.2026.2642246