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The permeable and impermeable wall of expectations
Author(s) -
Fong Mary
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
new directions for teaching and learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.192
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1536-0768
pISSN - 0271-0633
DOI - 10.1002/tl.272
Subject(s) - autoethnography , teaching assistant , higher education , pedagogy , sociology , pacific islanders , mathematics education , psychology , medical education , political science , gender studies , medicine , anthropology , law , ethnic group
This chapter presents an autoethnography of a Chinese American woman's twenty‐five years of experience in higher education at universities in Southern California and the Pacific Northwest. Her career is discussed in four stages: master's teaching assistant and student, part‐time instructor, doctoral teaching assistant and student, and professor.