Breaking the Silence Using AsianCrit: Arts-Based Autoethnography of an Asian Immigrant Teacher Educator

Abstract

This paper uses autoethnographic storytelling to examine the perpetually silenced space I occupy as an Asian immigrant teacher educator in the United States. Guided by four tenets of AsianCrit, I weave together fragments of my lifeworld that both fuel and challenge my position as a teacher educator in the hope of establishing fragile connectivities with other Asian American teachers and expanding the limited presence of Asian American voices in the field of teacher education.

Keywords:

• AsianCrit
• autoethnography
• immigrant
• teacher identity