Renewing Education Justice in a Globalizing World: Transnational Acculturation Narratives of Becoming and Belonging

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Saturday 8:00 am Four Seasons Ballroom 1
  In Roundtable Session: Coloniality of Language Education, Curriculum, and Pedagogy (Table 7)

Abstract

This presentation employs interdisciplinary work across ethnic, racial, linguistic and geographic differences to illustrate the resourcefulness of diversity to undertake repair regarding the state of multicultural relations in Western higher education. Researcher-participants draw from the fields of second language acquisition, transcultural literacy, and postcolonial scholarship to crystalize how international doctoral students negotiate their positioning in the face of marginalization and deficit discourses against bi/multilingualism, and immigrant heritage. How might Taiwanese Indonesian, and Kenyan doctoral international students, who are blackened in this way, acclimate to Western academic spaces? Through an interepistemic synergy approach (Author, 2019) including multimodal analysis (Jewitt, 2013) and a decolonizing methodologies lens (Smith, 2012), this presentation showcases research work and remediation and proposes repair of fractured multicultural representations.

Authors

• Yanty Wirza, Indonesia University of Education

• Ya-Li Wu, Fo Guang University

• David Bwire, The College of New Jersey