Open AccessAN AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC ACCOUNT OF TWO INDONESIAN ACADEMIC RETURNEES EXPERIENCED OF REVERSE CULTURE SHOCK
Author(s) -
Irfan Rifai,
Mukrim Tamrin
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal sampurasun
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2460-5743
pISSN - 2460-5735
DOI - 10.23969/sampurasun.v6i2.3317
Subject(s) - autoethnography , indonesian , identity (music) , sociology , psychology , academic community , pedagogy , gender studies , social science , aesthetics , linguistics , philosophy
In this article, we use an autoethnography approach to reflect on our emotional experiences of re-integrating in academic community in two different universities. We start to explore our experience of implementing new knowledge in teaching and researching, demonstrating how we as junior lecturers often making confrontations with the ‘conventional’ and ‘traditional’ sounded educational system which have been practiced by senior colleagues. In this sense, there has been a conflictual emotion which we should address, utilizing our new knowledge or returning back to the existing norms. Whilst exploring our experiences of dealing with conflictual emotional beliefs, we also examine issue such as identity construction as being an academic returnee responding to the confrontation in academic environment. This study results may resonate the concrete condition of academic returnees re-integrating to their academic milieu in other part of the countries.