TY - JOUR
T1 - Weaving the Threads Between
T2 - Collaborative Auto-Ethnographic Reflections on Experiences of Migrant Learning and Teaching in Australia
AU - Throssell, Paul
AU - Lu, Jinjin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright 2023: Paul Throssell, Jinjin Lu, and Nova Southeastern University.
PY - 2023/9
Y1 - 2023/9
N2 - This article aims to use the two authors’ life experience, as English teachers, and university academics in the U.K., China and Australia, to improve an understanding how life trajectories can assist exploration of cultural difference and changes. Our experiences can be utilized as a means of understanding how responses to change and cultural differences can be influenced. Using a collaborative auto-ethnography research method offers readers opportunities to engage with the text through encountering the cultural nuances in these transitional journeys. The analysis is undertaken through the theoretical lens of transformational learning, cultural identity, and space. This paper will be of benefit both to academics in multicultural settings and to pre-service teachers in postgraduate programs. First, it will assist in sensitizing readers to become more culturally aware and competent through understanding how change across cultures can be beneficially accomplished and, second, by showing how constructive change can influence all evolving cultural identities within vibrant, multicultural and multilingual contexts such as we experience in Australia.
AB - This article aims to use the two authors’ life experience, as English teachers, and university academics in the U.K., China and Australia, to improve an understanding how life trajectories can assist exploration of cultural difference and changes. Our experiences can be utilized as a means of understanding how responses to change and cultural differences can be influenced. Using a collaborative auto-ethnography research method offers readers opportunities to engage with the text through encountering the cultural nuances in these transitional journeys. The analysis is undertaken through the theoretical lens of transformational learning, cultural identity, and space. This paper will be of benefit both to academics in multicultural settings and to pre-service teachers in postgraduate programs. First, it will assist in sensitizing readers to become more culturally aware and competent through understanding how change across cultures can be beneficially accomplished and, second, by showing how constructive change can influence all evolving cultural identities within vibrant, multicultural and multilingual contexts such as we experience in Australia.
KW - Australian migrants
KW - collaborative auto-ethnography
KW - cultural identities
KW - pre-service teachers
KW - reflection
KW - transformative learning
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85171976249&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.46743/2160-3715/2023.5940
DO - 10.46743/2160-3715/2023.5940
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85171976249
SN - 2160-3715
VL - 28
SP - 2523
EP - 2539
JO - Qualitative Report
JF - Qualitative Report
IS - 9
ER -