1st Edition

Critical Autoethnography and Intercultural Learning Emerging Voices

Edited By Phiona Stanley Copyright 2020
    204 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    204 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    Critical Autoethnography and Intercultural Learning shows how critical autoethnographic writing in a field such as intercultural education can help inform and change existing research paradigms. Engaging story-telling and insightful analysis from emerging scholars of diverse backgrounds and communities shows the impact of lived experience on teaching and learning.

    Different areas of intercultural learning are considered, including language education; student and teacher mobilities; Indigenous education; backpacker tourism; and religious learning. The book provides a worked example of how critical autoethnography can help shift thinking within any discipline, and reflects critically upon the multidimensional nature of migrant teacher and learner identities.

    This book will be essential reading for upper-level students of qualitative research methods, and on international education courses, including language education.

    Acknowledgement

    INTRODUCTION

    1. The Journey

    Phiona Stanley

    PART I: ENGAGING WITH THE WESTERN ‘ACADEMY’

    2. Epistemological Violence and Indigenous Autoethnographies

    Michelle Bishop

    3. Yarning through the Intricacies, Tensions, and Potentialities of (Indigenous) Autoethnography

    Michelle Bishop and Dakota Jericho Smith

    4. Alone but not Lonely

    Isma Eriyanti

    5. Double Precariat: A Migrant Placeholder in a Neoliberal University

    Madhavi (Maddy) Manchi

    6. Writing Double Precarity: Recalling and Re-Presenting Autoethnographies

    Madhavi (Maddy) Manchi and Elham Zakeri

    PART II: LINGUA-CULTURAL LEARNING

    7. Escaping the Comfort Zone: The First Language ‘Bubble’

    Anqi Li

    8. "Where Are You Really From?"

    Hyejeong Ahn

    9. Autoethnographic Perspectives on First Language Use in Second Language Learning.

    Davina Delesclefs

    10. Insecurities, Imposter Syndrome, and Native-Speakeritis

    Hyejeong Ahn and Davina Delesclefs

    11. Beginning and Becoming: Expectations of the Teaching Body in English Language Teaching

    Alana Bryant

    12. Running Away from ‘Chineseness’ at an Australian University

    Jinyang Zhan

    PART III: INTERCULTURAL LEARNING IN THE WORLD

    13. The Farm

    Tara McGuiness

    14. But you’re Not Religious — You're Not Going to Convert, Are You? — Come Pray with Us!

    Martha Gibson

    15. Living in Flux

    Matthew Crompton

    16. Imaginaries: Turkey, Australia, the World!

    Elham Zakeri

    17. De-Chinese and Re-Chinese: Negotiating Identity

    Ying (Ingrid) Wang

    18. "Which Side Are You On?" Between Two Cultures

    Gesthimani Moysidou

    CONCLUSION

    19. Learning, Critiquing, Emerging

    Phiona Stanley, Michelle Bishop, Maddy Manchi, Davina Delesclefs, Elham Zakeri & Alana Bryant

    Biography

    Phiona Stanley is Associate Professor of Intercultural Communications (Tourism and Languages) at Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland. Previously, she was Senior Lecturer in Education at UNSW Sydney, Australia. Her research—which is qualitative and mostly auto/ethnographic— focuses on intercultural interactions in a range of settings, including education and backpacker/volunteer tourism.