Grounding the Transnational: A Vietnamese Scholar's Autoethnography

Autor/in	Phùng, Thanh
Titel	Grounding the Transnational: A Vietnamese Scholar's Autoethnography
Quelle	In: Research in Comparative and International Education, 15 (2020) 3, S.217-233 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1745-4999
DOI	10.1177/1745499920946225
Schlagwörter	College Faculty; Ethnography; Faculty Mobility; Foreign Countries; Career Development; Teacher Attitudes; Professional Identity; Communities of Practice; Decision Making; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Language Teachers; Second Language Instruction; Personal Narratives; Self Concept; Study Abroad; Work Environment; Faculty Workload; Daily Living Skills; Teacher Education Programs; Doctoral Programs; Vietnamese People; Belgium; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Fakultät; Ethnografie; Ausland; Berufsentwicklung; Lehrerverhalten; Community; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Language teacher; Sprachunterricht; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Erlebniserzählung; Selbstkonzept; Studies abroad; Auslandsstudium; Arbeitsmilieu; Alltagsfertigkeit; Doktorandenprogramm; Belgien; USA
Abstract	Departing from the dominant trend of favoring flexibility, flattened relations, and deterritorialization in featuring the transnational, this autoethnographic inquiry theorizes and exemplifies how the gravity of place may give rise to the evolvement of scholarship in the context of transnational mobility. I examine my own career trajectory to demonstrate how groundedness results from the dynamics between displacement and emplacement. While recounting my experience of moving back and forth between Western universities and my home institution in Vietnam, I explore issues such as the nation building framework for transnational mobility, scholarly self-formation, and community cultivation. The study centers a mode of emplacement termed 'existential commitment'. It calls attention to the cultivation of a small, immediate scholarly community as a form of scholarship in the global periphery. The emphasis is on how the transnational can be grounded in local academic practices that address the world at multiple layers and scales. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01