Micromomental Mindset towards Anticolonial Intentionality

• In Event: AERA Poster Session Wednesday 1:45pm
  In Poster Session: Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism in Education

Abstract

Drawing on multicultural psychology and Eastern wisdom traditions, this paper theorizes moment-to-moment or a micromomental stance towards cultivating awareness in our perpetual endeavours, specifically within a MSc Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) and applied linguistics programme in the UK. We explore how mindfulness in the “here and now” can nurture anti-colonial hope and cultivate what we are calling anti-colonial intentionality within the space/context of doing English language teacher education programmes.

Authors

• Sultan Turkan, Queen's University - Belfast

• Mel M. Engman, Queen's University - Belfast