Educational Spaces that Support Asian/Asian Diasporic Communities (Poster 10)

• In Event: Division G Vice President Graduate Student/Early Career Scholar Poster Session

Abstract

In this paper, I extend the concept of the nomencurriculum, a framework that analyzes names and naming as sites lived curricula to study the framings and naming of educational spaces that support Asian/Asian diasporic communities in two large universities. Using nomencurricular analysis grounded in AsianCrit and decolonial theory, I use critical discursive and archival methodologies centering and erasure(s) of particular groups in universities’ supports of their Asian/Asian diasporic communities. I argue that names and naming are a social foundation of education in and of themselves in which these social foundations can be sensed in individuals’ educational experiences.

Author

• Kyle L. Chong, Michigan State University