Finding a "Third Space of Enunciation": A Postcolonial Analysis of Vietnamese Graduate Students' Experiences

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session 9
  In Roundtable Session: Curriculum Entanglements and Lived Experiences of Students and Teachers Across Educational Contexts

Abstract

The purpose of the proposal is to explore the experiences of Vietnamese international graduate students in American higher education through a postcolonial perspective. It seeks to understand in what ways they were able to create a third space of enunciation to develop themselves personally and academically. We analyze the students’ lived experiences in seeking possibilities for the educational experiences of Vietnamese graduate students in specific and all international students from developing countries in the Southern Hemisphere in American higher education.

Authors

• Ngan Thi Thu Nguyen, Texas Tech University

• Jeong-Hee Kim, Texas Tech University