"Making a Conscious Decision": Working With Immigrant Students

• In Event: Marriott Roundtable Session 31
  In Roundtable Session: Entanglements of Citizenship and Place-Ing the Nation

Abstract

In this paper, I used small stories narrative to understand how educators work with and care for immigrant and undocumented students and to examine the educator’s experiences as it relates to her personal and professional identities. Data included in-depth interviews, observations, and artifacts. By using small narrative stories, my research was able to make meaning of the tensions that arose from the participants past experiences as an immigrant student, as well as how those tensions relate to the participants critical reflexivity of community and cultural practices.

Author

• Stephanie Oudghiri, Purdue University