Undoing the Knots
Identity transformations in a study abroad programme
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8859341 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Constance Ellwood (The University of Melbourne, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 960-978 |
| Publication date | 2009-11-08 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Educational Philosophy and Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-1857 • E-ISSN: 1469-5812 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1469-5812.2009.00559.x |
| OpenAlex | W1972516154 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 34 |
In times of globalised flows of students, this paper offers an alternative way of conceptualising identity change in the experiences of students on study abroad or student exchange programmes. Despite the ‘identity turn’ of recent years, modernist notions of identity continue to impact on the ways in which study abroad experiences are conceived, resulting in failures both to facilitate productive change and to recognise blocked, or ‘knotted’, attempts at change. The discussion considers data collected in an ethnographic study of a tertiary‐level English language programme in an Australian university and suggests that a closer look at the specific experiences of four individual study abroad students, through the lens of the Deleuzian concepts of the molar, the molecular and the line of flight, offers a way looking at identity which may help both educators and learners open more usefully to the possibilities for self‐transformation
Aesthetics · Ethnography · Identity (music · Pedagogy · Sociology · Study abroad · Undoing · Anthropology · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Gender Studies · Global Education and Multiculturalism · International Student and Expatriate Challenges · Psychology
Learning Partnerships in Study Abroad
Talking with ‘Others’
How’s your CQ
Enhancing multicultural perspectives in the formation of preservice teachers through immersion in a culturally different context
The Impact of Cultural Immersion Experience on Identity Transformation Process
Distinguishing Oneself
Open Your Mind, Sharpen Your Wits”
Learner Identity and Investment in EFL, EMI, and ESL Contexts
Hearts and minds
A sociological exploration of the impact of study abroad on international PhD students’ self-identity
Investigating multilingual identity in study abroad contexts
Subjectivity as a play of territorialization
Race, Culture, and Identities in Second Language Education
Identity and Language Learning
Volatile Bodies
Study Abroad and Second Language Use
The Rise of Identity in SLA Research, Post Firth and Wagner (1997)
Social difficulty in a foreign culture
Multiple Discourses, Multiple Identities
Modernity at large
In the ruins of representation
Cultural Shock
The Days Now Is Very Hard for My Family
Gender, Identity and Intercultural Transformation in Second Language Socialisation
Apply within, apply without
Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture
A new look at an old construct
The prediction of psychological and sociocultural adjustment during cross-cultural transitions
Changing Perspectives on Good Language Learners
Privileging of Speech in EAP and Mainstream University Classrooms
Study Abroad from the Participants' Perspective
Deleuzian Concepts for Education
Conceptions of the Self in Early Childhood
The specters of bodies and affects in the classroom
Anti-Oedipus
A thousand plateaus
Becoming Black
Both a fiction and an existential fact
Social Identity, Investment, and Language Learning
Praise and Stigma
Animations of Deleuze and Guattari
Towards a semiotic theory of learning
| Citations per year | 0.8 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2024 (14) |
| Highly cited | No |