Interculturality, Identity, and Power: Experiences of Volunteer Chinese Teachers at Overseas Confucius Institutes

Autor/in	Zhang, Donghui
Titel	Interculturality, Identity, and Power: Experiences of Volunteer Chinese Teachers at Overseas Confucius Institutes
Quelle	In: Frontiers of Education in China, 13 (2018) 2, S.193-215 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1673-341X
DOI	10.1007/s11516-018-0011-3
Schlagwörter	Volunteers; Language Teachers; Second Language Instruction; College Graduates; Graduate Students; Chinese; Overseas Employment; Institutes (Training Programs); Intercultural Communication; Foreign Countries; Power Structure; Teaching Experience; Identification + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Freiwilliger; Language teacher; Sprachunterricht; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Hochschulabsolvent; Hochschulabsolventin; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; China; Chinesen; Auslandstätigkeit; Sommerakademie; Interkulturelle Kommunikation; Ausland; Identifikation; Identifizierung
Abstract	With the rapid expansion of Confucius Institutes globally, the Hanban launched a Volunteer Chinese Teachers (VCT) Program with the purpose of selecting a large number of college graduates and graduate students from Chinese universities to fill vacancies for overseas Chinese teachers. In spite of the multitude of students participating in the program, there has been a paucity of research attention on them. How do these students, most of whom have never been abroad before, manage their life in their host country and negotiate their new role as a VCT in an overseas Confucius Institute? What are their intercultural experiences as they venture into a new country to serve as a native teacher of Chinese? Based on in-depth interviews with a dozen VCTs teaching in linguistically and culturally different contexts, this study seeks to examine the dynamics of interculturality, identity and power relations involved in their overseas language teaching. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01