The Cultural Hybridity of the University Supervisor's Role and Identity: An Auto-Ethnographic Approach

• In Event: 43.028 - Mentoring, Monitoring, and Moving Through Higher Education

Abstract

This paper unfolds an international doctoral student’s stories of becoming a university supervisor in the U.S. and the negotiation of different roles between the position as an international doctoral student and a teacher educator. This study considers “hybrid consciousness” (Anzaldúa, 1987; Asher, 2002) as helpful in thinking of ways to understand an international doctoral student’s experiences of becoming a teacher educator, as well as to encourage international teacher educators to transform their own practices towards equity and inclusion, thereby encouraging the same in those they teach. This autoethnographic approach underscores the need for further discourse on teacher educators’ diverse identities and backgrounds as it discusses an individual teacher educator’s problems and dilemmas which have been underrepresented or silenced.

Author

• Younkyung Hong, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities