| Description |
1 online resource (188 p.) |
| Series |
Global Vietnam: Across Time, Space and Community |
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Global Vietnam
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| Contents |
Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Figures -- 1 Narrative Beginnings -- 1.1 Experience Compels My Research -- 1.2 Beginning to Wonder About Composing Lives in Transition -- 1.2.1 Inquiring into Experiences of Transition in My Childhood -- 1.2.2 Early Childhood with Very Few Friends -- 1.3 Beginning to Wonder About Intergenerational Narrative Reverberation -- 1.3.1 The Kitchen: Grandmother, Mother, and Daughter -- 1.4 Beginning to Wonder About Familial Curriculum Making -- References -- 2 Theoretical Underpinnings of This Narrative Inquiry |
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2.1 Lingering with My Wonders of Experience, Lives in Transition, Familial Curriculum Making, and Intergenerational Narrative Reverberation -- 2.1.1 Dewey's Theory of Experience -- 2.1.2 Becoming Drawn Toward Lives in Transition -- 2.1.3 Becoming Drawn Toward Familial Curriculum Making -- 2.1.4 Becoming Drawn Toward Intergenerational Narrative Reverberation -- 2.2 Additional Social/Theoretical Justifications for an Emerging Research Puzzle -- 2.2.1 Attending to Children as They Compose Lives in Transition to Canada -- 2.2.2 Attending to the Vietnamese Community in Canada |
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2.2.3 Attending to "World"-Travelling -- 2.3 An Emerging Research Puzzle -- References -- 3 Learning to Think Narratively -- 3.1 Gradually Awakening to the Centrality of the Relational Ethics as a Narrative Inquirer -- 3.2 Continuing to Grow in Understanding What Narrative Inquirers Do -- 3.3 The Centrality of Experience and Attending to Experience -- 3.4 Co-making Our Relational Narrative Inquiry -- 3.4.1 Meeting Potential Co-researchers -- 3.4.2 Coming Alongside Co-researchers and Co-composing Field Texts -- 3.4.3 Thinking Narratively with Our Field Texts to Shape Interim Research Texts |
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3.4.4 Drawing on the Narrative Accounts to Shape Final Research Texts -- 3.5 Looking Ahead -- References -- 4 A Narrative Account of Coming Alongside Lisa and Hồng -- 4.1 Rooting and Co-making Relationships -- 4.1.1 Introducing Lisa and Hồng -- 4.2 Narrative Threads Weaving Lisa and Hồng's Familial Curriculum Making -- 4.2.1 Living in Intergenerationally and Culturally Ethical and Respectful Ways -- 4.2.2 In Relation with Bà-Numerous Stories Lived, Told, and Retold During Our Inquiry -- 4.2.3 In Relation with Lisa-Numerous Stories Lived, Told, and Retold During Our Inquiry |
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4.2.4 In Relation with Hồng-Numerous Stories Lived, Told, and Retold During Our Inquiry -- 4.2.5 Valuing and Nurturing Relationships -- 4.2.6 Desiring Good Relationships More Than Learning Languages -- 4.2.7 Composing Lives in Two Languages -- 4.2.8 Family as Always-in-the-Making -- 4.3 Returning to the Piano -- References -- 5 A Narrative Account of Coming Alongside Ryan and Thanh -- 5.1 Beginning in Tensions -- 5.2 A Year Later, a Healthier Happier Story Begins to Be Lived and Told -- 5.3 A Year Before: Thinking Backward and Forward from Our Days of Rooting Relationships |
| Summary |
This book recounts the understanding of three Vietnamese children and their mothers experiences as they navigate being newcomers to Canada. It explores the cultural, traditional, familial, intergenerational, personal, social, institutional, political, historical, community, and linguistic narratives shaping Vietnamese children and mothers as they compose their lives. The author employs narrative inquiry as a methodological approach, beginning by positioning herself through her narrative beginnings, delving deep into philosophical and methodological underpinnings. The author lays out the three childmother pairs experiences as they negotiated a new culture in Canada, particularly the spaces of home, schools, and communities. The book brings a holistic and relational way of understanding familial curriculum-making as support for childrens school curriculum-making and for the ways in which Vietnamese families sustain their ongoing life making. It also looks at the influence of the homelands language, culture, and educational traditions. Through the complex interplay between the children and mothers narratives and the writers own stories, this book discusses multiperspectival and multidimensional ways of supporting Vietnamese newcomers and other arrivals composing their lives in similar landscapes. The book is relevant to educators, researchers, cultural brokers, and policymakers, opening avenues for understanding cultural ethics within the relational ethics of narrative inquiry, as well as familial narratives in relation to institutional and social narratives |
| Notes |
5.4 Narrative Threads of Coming Alongside Ryan and Thanh |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 13, 2023) |
| Subject |
Vietnamese -- Canada -- Social conditions
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Mother and child -- Canada -- Social conditions
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Vietnamese -- Social conditions.
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Canada.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9819958180 |
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9789819958184 |
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