The Futures We Bring: Cultural Worldviews and the Reimagining of Academic Belonging

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Sunday 11:45 am - Gold 2
  In Roundtable Session: Belonging and Identity Across Borders

Abstract

How can a decolonizing, autoethnographic exploration of Taiwanese, Indonesian, and Kenyan doctoral students' experiences challenge deficit narratives and highlight cultural identity as a resource for academic and social acculturation in Western higher education?
This presentation illustrates the role of premigration cultural practices in academic and social acculturation to reimagine productive multicultural relations in Western higher education. Three researcher participants from Taiwan, Indonesia, and Kenya employ a decolonizing methodologies lens (Smith, 2012), to do a self-reflexive autoethnographic (discourse) analysis of recollections and (multimodal) analysis of images to illustrate how internalized cultures support acculturation. Overall, by employing specific instantiations of Taiwanese, Indonesian, and Kenyan languacultures, this presentation shows intentional futuring to reimagine the role of cultural worldviews in acculturation.

Authors

• Ya-Li Wu, Fo Guang University

• Yanty Wirza, Indonesia University of Education

• David Bwire, The College of New Jersey