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BECOMING A BI-CULTURAL TEACHER: A NARRATIVE INQUIRY INTO THE STORIES OF CHINESE TEACHERS IN AMERICAN SCHOOLS

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2016, PHD, Kent State University, College of Education, Health and Human Services / School of Foundations, Leadership and Administration.
This study is about Chinese teachers who work and live in the American landscape. This is a narrative inquiry into the professional experience of three Chinese teachers, including myself, who became bi-cultural teachers within two vastly different landscapes. It involves the telling, retelling, and reliving of my experiences and those of my co-participants in America and examines how our Chinese cultural and educational experience shaped our teaching identities. From our narratives, I illustrate the ways in which my co-participants encountered, adapted into, worked within what were novel roles as teachers, as well as gained new perspectives on teaching. I drew on our stories to find themes in the development of our hybrid teacher identities. Our narratives demonstrate an evolution that connected our identities as Chinese teachers with how we saw ourselves professionally, culturally, and personally and who we were – our identities in America. We began to realize that our past is part of our present and future. Learning to teach in two landscapes that have different cultural norms and educational beliefs, we began to look forward.
Vilma Seeberg, Dr. (Advisor)
191 p.

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  • Zheng, Q. (2016). BECOMING A BI-CULTURAL TEACHER: A NARRATIVE INQUIRY INTO THE STORIES OF CHINESE TEACHERS IN AMERICAN SCHOOLS [Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1478367884659309

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Zheng, Qiuxian. BECOMING A BI-CULTURAL TEACHER: A NARRATIVE INQUIRY INTO THE STORIES OF CHINESE TEACHERS IN AMERICAN SCHOOLS. 2016. Kent State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1478367884659309.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Zheng, Qiuxian. "BECOMING A BI-CULTURAL TEACHER: A NARRATIVE INQUIRY INTO THE STORIES OF CHINESE TEACHERS IN AMERICAN SCHOOLS." Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1478367884659309

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)