Trans-Cultural Population and Trans-Cultural Education: Embracing Ambiguous Heritage (80442)
Session Chair: Ya-Hsuan Wang
Saturday, 13 July 2024 10:45
Session: Session 1
Room: G12 (Ground)
Presentation Type:Oral Presentation
Based on transnationalism and transculturalism, this study concerning the human right issues for pluricultural people is focused on transcultural knowledge reform using their life experiences in order to tackle the complicate negotiation of cross-border identity under ambivalence and ambiguity within globalization era and localization contexts. Who are transcultural people? Trans means across or beyond. Transcultural is rooted in the breaking down of boundaries and the concept that no one culture “belongs” to any one group. Transcultural people are to describe people who were “born into” one culture but identify with another or “born into” a culture in-between. This goes beyond simply adopting another culture or ethnicity's traditions, customs, or behaviors. Transcultural individuals could be cultural expatriates who identify strongly with a culture they select. Within the context of international marriage in Taiwan, transcultural people are often classified to the mother’s nationality or asked to select one ethnicity that goes beyond what multicultural education can tackle.
This project tries to rebuild the landscape of trans-cultural education by defining trans-cultural people with embracing their ambiguous heritage. It is oriented from the interest in cultural studies, turning from multiculturalism to transculturalism. Field data were taken from immigrants and their children. This study takes Merleau-Ponty (1962) “ambiguity” to reconstruct ambiguous heritage in order to build up the base of trans-cultural knowledge. It is to face up to the need of trans-cultural education by exploring pluricultural people’s interpretation on identity-partitioning and identity complexes intertwined with the social structure and ethnic interaction.
Authors:
Ya-Hsuan Wang, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
Syun-Yi Chang, University of Hsuan Chuang, Taiwan
About the Presenter(s)
Professor Ya-Hsuan Wang is a University Professor/Principal Lecturer at National Chung Cheng University in Taiwan
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