“You turned Asian before my very eyes,” a colleague told me after a potentially explosive parent-teacher conference with a Middle Eastern, immigrant family.
This is the beginning of an article that I have written about a term I have coined, transcultural acculturation, and has been published on Learning for Justice’s website. This week, I’d like to encourage you to read the article on the original site: https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/moving-from-bicultural-to-transcultural-acculturation. There are numerous teaching tips for everyone who works with Third Culture Kids. Let me know what y’all think.
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