Embroidering Myself into Otherness : an Auto-ethnographic Inquiry of Border-crossing
This auto-ethnographic inquiry explores the complexities and singularities of a western teacher immersed in the social reality of a Chinese university. Focusing on the specifics of my relationships with Chinese colleagues and students, I offer an alternative way of interpreting intercultural relatio...
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Curtin University
2013
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| author | Scott, Joy Denise |
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| description | This auto-ethnographic inquiry explores the complexities and singularities of a western teacher immersed in the social reality of a Chinese university. Focusing on the specifics of my relationships with Chinese colleagues and students, I offer an alternative way of interpreting intercultural relations. Through these relationships I foreground inclusion, exclusion, contradiction and the complexity of everyday life, and ask: who is the Chinese other? Who is the foreigner? What can they teach each other? |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-13822017-09-13T16:12:24Z Embroidering Myself into Otherness : an Auto-ethnographic Inquiry of Border-crossing Scott, Joy Denise This auto-ethnographic inquiry explores the complexities and singularities of a western teacher immersed in the social reality of a Chinese university. Focusing on the specifics of my relationships with Chinese colleagues and students, I offer an alternative way of interpreting intercultural relations. Through these relationships I foreground inclusion, exclusion, contradiction and the complexity of everyday life, and ask: who is the Chinese other? Who is the foreigner? What can they teach each other? 2013 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1382 10.4225/06/55B08D1721790 en Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Scott, Joy Denise Embroidering Myself into Otherness : an Auto-ethnographic Inquiry of Border-crossing |
| title | Embroidering Myself into Otherness : an Auto-ethnographic Inquiry of Border-crossing |
| title_full | Embroidering Myself into Otherness : an Auto-ethnographic Inquiry of Border-crossing |
| title_fullStr | Embroidering Myself into Otherness : an Auto-ethnographic Inquiry of Border-crossing |
| title_full_unstemmed | Embroidering Myself into Otherness : an Auto-ethnographic Inquiry of Border-crossing |
| title_short | Embroidering Myself into Otherness : an Auto-ethnographic Inquiry of Border-crossing |
| title_sort | embroidering myself into otherness : an auto-ethnographic inquiry of border-crossing |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1382 |