ABSTRACT

Critical Autoethnography and Intercultural Learning shows how critical autoethnographic writing in a field such as intercultural education can help inform and change existing research paradigms. Engaging story-telling and insightful analysis from emerging scholars of diverse backgrounds and communities shows the impact of lived experience on teaching and learning.

Different areas of intercultural learning are considered, including language education; student and teacher mobilities; Indigenous education; backpacker tourism; and religious learning. The book provides a worked example of how critical autoethnography can help shift thinking within any discipline, and reflects critically upon the multidimensional nature of migrant teacher and learner identities.

This book will be essential reading for upper-level students of qualitative research methods, and on international education courses, including language education.

part |16 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|14 pages

The journey

part I|46 pages

Engaging with the western ‘academy’

chapter 4|9 pages

Alone but not lonely

chapter 5|9 pages

Double precariat

A migrant placeholder in a neoliberal university

chapter 6|3 pages

Writing double precarity

Recalling and re-presenting autoethnographies

part II|55 pages

Lingua-cultural learning

chapter 7|11 pages

Escaping the comfort zone

The first language ‘bubble’

chapter 8|8 pages

“Where are you really from?”

chapter 11|10 pages

Beginning and becoming

Expectations of the teaching body in English language teaching

part III|63 pages

Intercultural learning in the world

chapter 13|10 pages

The farm

chapter 15|11 pages

Living in flux

chapter 16|9 pages

Imaginaries

Turkey, Australia, the world!

chapter 17|12 pages

De-Chinese and re-Chinese

Negotiating identity