The Chronotopic Adventures of an English Teacher: Enacting Multiple Identities for Relational Pedagogy

• In Event: Diverse Pedagogy through Experience and Voice

Abstract

This paper examines a teacher’s construction of multiple selves in relation to a heterogenous classroom, academic tasks, and institutional norms. Data comes from a sophomore English class that engaged with a Migration Storytelling curriculum. Drawing on Anzaldúa (Nepantla) and Bakhtin (chronotope), we analyze moments in the teacher’s instruction where she shares personal stories. We argue that she creates a palimpsest of different times and spaces, and that her constructions of selfhood are both pedagogical and relational.

Authors

• Gautam Bisht, Northwestern University

• Patricia Delacruz, Evanston Township High School

• Wan Shun Eva Lam, Northwestern University

• Tori Choi, Northwestern University

• Tok Lin Yeo, Northwestern University