Growing Everyday Multiculturalism: Practice-Based Learning of Chinese Immigrants through Community Gardens in Canada

Autor/inn/en	Shan, Hongxia; Walter, Pierre
Titel	Growing Everyday Multiculturalism: Practice-Based Learning of Chinese Immigrants through Community Gardens in Canada
Quelle	In: Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 65 (2015) 1, S.19-34 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0741-7136
DOI	10.1177/0741713614549231
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Immigrants; Migrant Education; Multicultural Education; Ethnology; Qualitative Research; Learning Experience; Community Recreation Programs; Sensitivity Training; Outdoor Education; Place Based Education; Interviews; Adult Basic Education; Social Adjustment; Gardening; Females; Asians; Canada; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Multikulturelle Erziehung; Ethnologie; Qualitative Forschung; Lernerfahrung; Sensitivitätstraining; Freiluftunterricht; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult education; Erwachsenenbildung; Soziale Anpassung; Gartenarbeit; Weibliches Geschlecht; Asian; Asiat; Asiatin; Asiaten; Asiate; Kanada
Abstract	While official rhetoric of multiculturalism claims to value cultural diversity, everyday multiculturalism focuses on how people of diverse cultural backgrounds live together in their everyday lives. Research on everyday multiculturalism has documented ways through which people negotiate senses, sensibilities, emotionality, and relationality across intercultural contact zones. While recognizing the importance of human intentionality and community in conditioning coexistence, this article also points to the constitutive power of practice-based learning that emerges through the coming together of human and nonhuman beings. Drawing on a qualitative study of the learning experiences of six Chinese immigrants in community gardens on a university campus in Canada, this article shows three ways of learning that foster knowing, connecting, and hybrid knowledge production across cultures: (a) learning through communities of conviviality; (b) learning mediated through nonhuman things such as land, waste, and free-floating seeds; and (c) learning through assemblages that fold in culture, place, and space. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10