Constructing mirrors of learning : the negotiation of identity and representation in the lives of Chinese Canadian women

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dc.contributor.authorLam, Eugenie Yuen-Chingen_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-14T21:00:05Z
dc.date.available2024-08-14T21:00:05Z
dc.date.copyright1998en_US
dc.date.issued1998
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Psychological Foundations in Education
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en
dc.description.abstractThis inquiry explores how five women of Chinese descent, all formally educated and raised in Canada, understand and learn about identity and representation in their daily lives in a predominately eurocentric society. It examines some of the complexities and contradictions of living a "hyphenated" identity as "Chinese-Canadian women" across borders that continually re-define and challenge the meanings of sameness, difference, and be-longing. Within the frameworks of cultural psychology, discursive psychology, and hermeneutics, the project of living an identity is multi­layered and evolving as it entails negotiating the tensions between how one is known to oneself and how one is seen by others. Interwoven into this inquiry are identity issues in research that impact on minority women as both participants and researcher. The implications of representation and identity politics in research about racial minority women are addressed while engaging in a generative dialogue about learning across cultural borders.
dc.format.extent306 pages
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1828/18562
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.titleConstructing mirrors of learning : the negotiation of identity and representation in the lives of Chinese Canadian womenen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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