Date of Award
8-16-2024
Document Type
Open Access Dissertation
Department
Educational Leadership and Policies
First Advisor
Catherine Compton-Lilly
Abstract
Cosmopolitanism refers to becoming a world citizen who can live harmoniously with different cultures. Today, our classes in the United States have become diverse daily. While we teach students who can speak more than one language, our teachers are primarily monolingual and monocultural. Hence, teachers who can speak multiple languages are celebrated in the system (Pacheco et al., 2019). Expatriation refers to teacher mobility that can entail learning other languages and being exposed to different cultures. Expatriation, as a form of travel, is an essential construct for cosmopolitan literacies because cosmopolitan dispositions can be developed through traveling (Molz, 2006). Thus, this study focuses on a formerly expatriated teacher who speaks three different languages and works in a middle school. Adopting an intrinsic case study (Stake, 1995), I focus on the interaction between the teacher and students and her personal account regarding how to incorporate local and global cultures within the classroom. The documentation she uses, such as lesson plans, and school position papers, are used to cover every dimension of her teaching.
Rights
© 2024, Asiye Demir
Recommended Citation
Demir, A.(2024). In the Search of Cosmopolitan Literacies: A Case of Formerly Expatriated Language Teacher. (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved from https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/7674