Open AccessLiving in Transition to Teacher Education in Canada: Personal Reflections and Portraits of Two Vietnamese Female Doctoral Students
Author(s) -
Thuy-Hang Thi Tran,
Tram Anh Bui
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of the international society for teacher education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2521-6015
pISSN - 1029-5968
DOI - 10.26522/jiste.v25i2.3667
Subject(s) - vietnamese , narrative , sociology , sociocultural evolution , portrait , sociocultural perspective , pedagogy , personal narrative , transition (genetics) , perspective (graphical) , biography , gender studies , political science , visual arts , art , anthropology , biochemistry , literature , philosophy , linguistics , chemistry , gene , law
Living in transition while studying teacher education leads to multiple challenges for doctoral students as they situate themselves in the intersections with new sociocultural environments. The navigation process affects their personal and professional self-formation in constructing and reconstructing their multiple identities-making. In this paper, we, two Vietnamese female teachers, examine our life experience transitioning from Vietnamese to Canadian culture while pursuing our doctoral studies. The collaborative autobiography allows us to reflect, retell and relive our stories since we arrived in Canada. Through deconstructing our stories, we were amazed at the resonances of our tensions in new life-making experiences and perspective transformation in learning and conducting research. We hope our experiences are promising to shorten the gap in understanding experiences of those doctoral students composing life in similar education landscapes, which helps ease their difficulties and cultivate their academic and professional achievements. We also contribute more personal, social, cultural, and familial narratives to the dominant institutional narratives of Canadian teacher education.