Author/Authors :
TOCHON, François Victor University of Wisconsin-Madison - School of Education - Department of Curriculum and Instruction, USA , FER, Seval Hacettepe Üniversitesi - Eğitim Fakültesi - Eğitim Bilimleri Bölümü, Eğitim Programları ve Ögretim Anabilim Dali, Turkey
Title Of Article :
Truth Telling as Educational Inquiry: Taming the Foreign Self
Abstract :
Phenomenologically, self-perception and identity develop as experience unfolds. Clarifying this process can be used as a method of inquiry. Narratives of experience on both humane and social concerns mesh with the exploration of discursive and cultural contents that are filled with emotional contents. The article offers a theoretical overview on the intercultural and social construction of identity that occurs when people have prolonged contacts with another culture. It shows in what way the processes of acculturation entail identity changes in the course of which one becomes, momentarily, foreign to oneself. Unfolding narratively such identity processes places the participant into an inquiry in which truth telling becomes an educational methodology in the quest for meaning. The reflections in this article are discussed around the frame of educational and curriculum inquiry.
NaturalLanguageKeyword :
Educational inquiry , Curriculum , Linguistic , Interculture
JournalTitle :
Gazi University Journal Of Gazi Educational Faculty
