Poster #45 - Challenging "Best Practice" in Education Through Cross-Cultural Perspectives: A Collaborative Auto-Ethnography

• In Event: 21.063 - MTCC Poster Session Three
  In Poster Session: 21.063-4 - Division K Section 4 Poster Session

Abstract

We examine the ways in which the cultural and social experiences shape our notions of “best practice” in education. Using collaborative autoethnography as our method for inquiry (Chang, 2009; Chang, Ngunjiri, & Hernandez, 2013), we explore our personal and cultural experiences in educational systems in the United States and South Korea as the basis for investigating the importance of cultural contexts in the reconceptualization of “best practice.” Using Homi Bhabha’s (2004) notion of interstices to create a dialogic “in-between” space, we defamiliarize our beliefs and values regarding what is good teaching and learning and discuss the danger and ineffectiveness of the universal “one-size-fits-all” perspective in education.

Authors

• MinSoo Kim-Bossard, The College of New Jersey

• Madeline Remetz, The College of New Jersey